David Leitch Quotes

There's an arc to an action sequence, and you need to come out the other end knowing your character better, and maybe the story has moved forward in a compelling way.

David Leitch

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• In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.

  

  Oliver North
  • Bad
  • Action
  • Best

• With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Action

• I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Dream
  • Action

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Intriguing

• If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • You
  • Beginning
  • Intelligence

• I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Character
  • House
  • Period

• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Attention

• Writers are not meant for action.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Action
  • Writers
  • Meant

• Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Every

• You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Character
  • You
  • Know

• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Theatre
  • Transformation

• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • American
  • Mother

• I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Character
  • Evil
  • Come

• I've always considered myself a character actor.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Always

• Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Real
  • Feeling

• Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • People
  • Character
  • Moral

• Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Free
  • You
  • Pay

• Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Nature
  • Die

• Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals its true nature.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • World
  • True
  • Nature

• There's an arc to an action sequence, and you need to come out the other end knowing your character better, and maybe the story has moved forward in a compelling way.

  

  David Leitch
  • Character
  • Action