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“With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.”

Moments Character Acting I Realized Drivers Taxi

Author:Jodie Foster

“There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.”

Real Moments Character Acting Emotion Emotional Bases Method Response Real Life Emotional Response Residual Method Acting

Author:Corin Nemec

“That's the great thing about the 'Sin City' movies. Each little slot is incredibly meaningful, and each character has their own moment.”

Littles Moments Character Sin Cities Meaningful Great Things Sin City

Author:Juno Temple

“I would like to have opportunities in my career to do parts that people would remember - either the whole character or certain moments that they personally could really connect to or were really affected by it deeply.”

People Whole Moments Character Remember Certain Opportunity Careers Affected

Author:Austin Peck

“Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.”

“When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.”

People Wells Moments Character Scene Embrace Breathing

Author:Nathan Fillion

“I think an actor can actually gather moments, memories and emotions for his next character. So, it's a constant work.”

Thinking Moments Character Next Actors Memories Emotion Constant

Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god--Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment.”

Moments Character Political Politics Party Struggle Terrible Cost Succeed Majority Various Deceit Expenses Political Parties Cunning Supremacy Shady Trickery

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end.”

Thinking Should Important Ends Moments Character Stories Minutes Six Losing Seven Editing

Author:Judd Apatow

“There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.”

Humans Art Real Moments Character Lying Human Beings Darkness Lovely Decent Suspects Glimpse Twisted Affirming Life Affirming

Author:Martin McDonagh

“There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.”

Moments Character Jobs Media Football England Court Lifetime Protection Managers Soccer Description Suspects Veils Speculation Chairman Whim Hostage Libel

Author:A. A. Gill

“I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.”

Thinking I Can Play Moments Character Past Grows Past Is Over

Author:Gavin MacLeod

“While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.”

Trying I Can Moments Character Kids Challenges Acting Style Relate

Author:Kyra Sedgwick

“I always prefer the character moments. For me, personally, whether I'm shooting the gun or not shooting the gun, I really don't care. I'm the guy who's like, "Whatever you want me to do." But, I really get excited about the character moments that are steeped in emotion when the stakes are high.”

Want Moments Character Care Guy Emotion Gun Don't Care Excited Shooting Stakes Want Me You Want Me

Author:Brandon Jay McLaren

“I think real humans are so complicated, and often [characters] are written more one-dimensional without maybe even the writer knowing it. I've felt numerous moments in my life where my most confident moment and my most insecure moment were exactly the same time. There's nothing funny or interesting about perfection.”

Thinking Humans Real Moments Character Felt Interesting Knowing Written Perfection Complicated Insecure

Author:Kristen Bell

“There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.”

May Moments Character Stories Bigs Differences Scripts Lots Of Money Great Character

Author:Kevin Costner

“You have to protect the integrity of the show, your health, the character, all those things. So it's just about finding the right moments for everything. And if you're too stressed or tired, you to just back off for a little bit.”

Ifs Littles Moments Character Shows Bits Integrity Protect Findings Little Bit Tired Stressed Right Moment

Author:Dianna Agron

“Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.”

Moments Character Action Darkness Fire Tongue Impulse Flames Steady Heroism Epic Rockets Insulting Rushing Luminous Transient Radiance Epigrams Sparkling Darts

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.”

World Moments Character All Time Manners

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.”

Knows Wells Moments Character Difficult

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.”

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.”

People Ifs Trying Ends Moments Character Shows Hurt Violence Involved Cost Glory Impact Meant To Be Entertaining Protagonists Cathartic

Author:Charlie Huston

“Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the character for a moment, and then you move back into the structure of the book. I love those moments, because they are completely unbidden.”

Way Writing Book Moments Character Moving Novel Structure Engaged Unpredictable

Author:David Bezmozgis

“Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.”

“I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.”

Ifs I Can Moments Character Film Song Quality Magic Intention Mystical

Author:Jean-Marc Vallee

“Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could be giving you different views of the character; the emotional highlights of a moment.”

Giving Writing Different Whole Moments Character Views Responsibility Emotional Theater Fishes Plot Highlights Different Views

Author:Frank Wildhorn

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