Peter Finch Quotes
I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.
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I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.
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I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
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I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
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I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.
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The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.
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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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The fun for me is knowing what the other person is saying and what my character would be thinking at that time. On the stage you get the chance to do all that, to analyze and build a part, to react, to contribute something no one else can-not the author, not even the director.
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They're people who had flaws and who had affairs and had sex and had scandals, and very rarely do we look at the totality of our heroes' lives.
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When you get that tired, it becomes really challenging to keep bringing your best foot forward.
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A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.
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Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
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I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.
