Oscar Isaac Quotes
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.Oscar Isaac
Quotes to Explore
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
Calvin Klein -
My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
Gabrielle Reece -
When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
Valerie Simpson -
I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.
Camille Paglia -
What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
Daisy Ridley -
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
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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.
Frances Conroy -
My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.
Taylor Lautner -
One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I went to her salon, but could not afford any of her dresses myself, though I loved them. Miss Carnegie suggested I do a garden in exchange for a coat and dress, and so I designed and planted a garden for her.
Rachel Lambert Mellon -
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
Fran Drescher -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
Zooey Deschanel
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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.
Sally Hawkins -
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
Zooey Deschanel -
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
B. B. King -
I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
P. J. Harvey -
I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
Kate DiCamillo
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I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
Fiona Dourif -
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden -
There is something about a theatre room that is really like a laboratory for trying things and failing, because you have time to do that, and you can explore something deeply and discard it if it's not working.
Elizabeth Debicki -
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
Oscar Isaac