Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

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• In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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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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• When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
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• The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.

  

  Haley Bennett
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• The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.

  

  Vince Gilligan
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• For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.

  

  Warwick Davis
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• The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.

  

  Manmohan Singh
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• The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• Callender and Sally will be remembered as long as Jefferson as Blotts in his Character. The story of the latter, is a natural and almost unavoidable Consequence of that foul contagion in the human Character - Negro Slavery.

  

  John Adams
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• She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
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• The Secretariat horse character reveals his true identity, and it happens to be Bob Newhart.

  

  Craig Ferguson
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• I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn't agree with, then I wouldn't do it. If it was good for the show, then I had no problem. If it was demeaning to the character and wasn't adding a positive light to the show, then I can guarantee that I wouldn't do it.

  

  Bill Goldberg
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  • Light

• Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

  

  James Nesbitt
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• My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
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• As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
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• One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
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• I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

  

  Will Smith
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• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  

  Deborah Tannen
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• Don't be afraid to do the most insane thing. Don't think it's too crazy. Just go for it.

  

  Mikey Way My Chemical Romance
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• I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

  

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