Estelle Parsons Quotes
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
Estelle Parsons
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I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.
Taylor Kinney
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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
Laura Schlessinger
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I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
Finn Jones
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I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
Kate DiCamillo
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Flannery O'Connor
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I like Ned Leeds. I love the character so much. He's a very new character in the MCU. I think he's a very fresh take on people in the superhero world. Some superheroes crack under pressure, and Ned Leeds, who is not a superhero, doesn't.
Jacob Batalon
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One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?
V. S. Naipaul
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
Patrick Marber
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
Zachary Levi
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It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
Camille Pissarro
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I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.
Taylor Schilling
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As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to understand things. No bad guy looks in the mirror every morning and says, boy, I'm gonna be a real bad guy this morning. He goes after his own what he's after, just like us good guys. You kind of have to take a stand and, a lot of times, you have to take the writer's stand or the stand of the character this writer has created.
Michael McKean
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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson
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Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'
Lance Henriksen
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I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.
Zell Miller
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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius
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In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
Estelle Parsons
