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Last updated on December 20, 2024.
If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
I knew what kind of genre 'Casa de mi Padre' was going for. But my character, specifically, I think is very real.
Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.
It takes a great strength of character to arrive at Real at eighteen years and make a journey like I have so far. — © Raphael Varane
It takes a great strength of character to arrive at Real at eighteen years and make a journey like I have so far.
Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think that's a real gift.
If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.
I really took it in-house. The Constantine character has a kind of flesh-and-blood practical look at things that would seem, other people would use the word, occult or spiritual. But here, demons are real. So for me it was more taking it from the film itself. I didn't really need to go outside the piece itself to inform me because the perspective on it, what the character does, was provided by the script.
I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.
I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.
With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.
The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly.
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
The character is what trips you up - the thing of, "I'm going to get so dark in this character that I'm going to get lost in a character." You can't get lost in a character. You can only think you're lost in a character.
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
I've won fair-play prizes, but that's just my nature, my character. This is who I am, and I do not feel the need to hide the real me.
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment. — © Paul Haggis
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.
I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.
Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.
It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you read a book because you like the character, you are cheering for the character; you want the best for the character.
It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.
I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.
I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.
I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
Production has a lot if risks but I think acting is more challenging. You have to make a character look real.
I believe in the fact that to portray a character convincingly, you need to live that character, own that character. You have to be earnest with every line that you deliver. However, it doesn't mean that you have to cut off your true self.
It takes a great strength of character to arrive at Real at 18 years and make a journey like I have so far.
I think the best way to sell a made-up character is to plant his feet into the real earth.
If I'm asked which is my favourite character to play, I'll definitely say Rosy from 'Guide' because I feel she is very real.
In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.
'Hate Story 4' is a revenge drama. My character Tasha is the real hero of the film. If you look at the poster, you will know.
Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.
So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men, he is constantly acting a studied part. The bold and peculiar traits of native character are refined away or softened down by the levelling influence of what is termed good-breeding, and he practises so many petty deceptions and affects so many generous sentiments for the purposes of popularity that it is difficult to distinguish his real from his artificial character.
If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.
I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a way that I'm perhaps too timid to do in real life.
Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
We have this saying, and it's been very useful when a series, 'The Mindy Project' goes for longer than a hundred episodes, which is Mindy character can never get what she wants when she wants it. We enjoyed it because it felt very real to her character to make a big impulsive move and it seems like she has everything, this instant family, a guy she loves and then there's a moment of panic.
When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit. — © Ed Helms
When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.
Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think thats a real gift.
I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real.
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.
I think thats what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.
I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.
Being really likeable all the time is just not real life, so it's your duty to make a well-rounded character.
The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.
I watch a lot of different films. A lot of different performances and I find a lot of little things from the films or things that actors do or people in real life who have behaviors or idiosyncrasies that I like or find interesting and I try to remember that. And then I'll do a prayer. I'll do a prayer to ask the character or the spirit of the character to come and visit me. And let's work together.
In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors. — © Wallace Shawn
In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.
A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.
When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.
I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.
Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.
To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.
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