Brenton Thwaites Quotes

In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions.

Brenton Thwaites

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• I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• 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.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Know

• Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Character
  • Play
  • Rock

• Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Audience
  • Innocent

• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Character
  • Human
  • Analysis

• There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Control

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

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Character
  • Evil
  • Come

• The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • American
  • Control
  • Will

• My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Favorite
  • Go

• If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Pain
  • Tears
  • Many

• Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Job
  • Black

• I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Funny

• I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.

  

  Imelda May
  • Way
  • Young
  • Started

• I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Character
  • Spirit
  • Acting

• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Morning
  • Friendship

• My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Opportunity

• I think that with podcasts, a lot of things are about fostering and having a direct connection with the community.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Community
  • Connection

• My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

  

  Jennifer Tilly
  • Mother
  • Hair
  • Classy

• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Winning
  • Race
  • Three

• For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Motion

• In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions.

  

  Brenton Thwaites
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Community