Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
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It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn't seem possible; that seems insane.
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What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
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But in action, one defies one's character.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
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I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater on a larger scale. I'm just excited for the next thing that comes along that I'm salivating over. I think a little more guerrilla would be really exciting to me.
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
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As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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It seems to me that most good protagonists are both clever and resourceful. They are intelligent and can fix things, both little and big. They can come up with inventive solutions others would never think of.
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Because I didn't have much money, I bought a small shop that fit my budget. The previous six owners had closed their business in three years. The store had no people traffic and, because of that, I was able to focus on figuring out how to provide a better service to each and every one of the customers that did come through.
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I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.
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The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
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We believe that Apple has it wrong: they've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different; the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect.
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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
