Melanie Laurent Quotes
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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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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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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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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In every movie I do have a dialogue.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.
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I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.
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That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
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My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
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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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Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.
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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
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A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.
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For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
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So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world.
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I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.
