Hayden Christensen Quotes

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

Hayden Christensen

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• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Movie
  • You
  • Learn

• In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Time
  • Live
  • Character

• A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Movie
  • Know

• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • American
  • Mother

• I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Like

• Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Character

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Movie
  • Journey
  • First

• At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Character
  • Turn
  • Legal

• A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Woman

• People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Character
  • Step

• The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Shadow

• There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality of their own. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of them, and I think it very important to recognize and respect that character.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Important
  • Character

• I steal from every movie ever made.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Made
  • Ever

• I always felt once it goes into movie land, the book belongs to someone else.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Book
  • Movie

• Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.

  

  Chrysippus
  • Character
  • True
  • Nature

• We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Culture

• But, yeah, I'd love to do something else in someone else's movie.

  

  Jason Mewes
  • Movie

• A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Different
  • Book
  • Movie

• The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

  

  Martin Compston
  • Time
  • School

• For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

  

  Hayden Christensen
  • Character
  • Movie