Ryan Gosling Quotes

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.

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• I'm not coming back to play.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Play
  • Back
  • Coming

• The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Real
  • She
  • Character

• I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater on a larger scale. I'm just excited for the next thing that comes along that I'm salivating over. I think a little more guerrilla would be really exciting to me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Love
  • Character
  • Dream

• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Attention

• I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Play
  • Thought
  • Window

• I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Day
  • Play

• Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Science

• I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Opportunity
  • Know
  • Play

• I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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  • Want
  • Play

• 'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexuality, it's not about identity. It's about all these different layers, because they are all a part of the character.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Different
  • Character
  • Identity

• 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

• When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Character
  • Job
  • Person

• Greene is a Jekyll and Hyde character, who has not succeeded in fusing the two sides of himself into any kind of harmony. There is conflict within him, and therefore he is liable to pursue conflict without.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Character

• I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

  

  Rue McClanahan
  • Character
  • Stills

• When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Place
  • First
  • Everyone

• 'The Wall' doesn't recount a specific soldier's experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with me and with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and with John Cena.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Experience
  • Wall
  • Soldier

• For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Up
  • Writing

• O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • God
  • Earth
  • Unity

• I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.

  

  Ryan Gosling
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