Peter De Vries Quotes
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
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I could live naked... I love it.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
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I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.
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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.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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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Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.
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I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
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I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.
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I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
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Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.
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I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.
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Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.
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There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.
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The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.
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I like a performance, a live performance, so I like little mistakes because that's what makes perfect - the mistakes.
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I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.
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Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.
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Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
