Michael Eklund Quotes
With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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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.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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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.
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The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.
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Everyone is going to die.
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When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
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I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.
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When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.
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A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.
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Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.
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As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
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I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.
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If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?
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Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
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You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun to remain in that naive place as you go along, and be able to continue to discover things about your character as the writers come up with them.
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I've never really been a careerist; I've never been able to step back and look at anything in that way. I though this is just what happens. I did take my work very seriously. I loved immersing myself in a character. I loved getting the opportunity to do that. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was, how lucky I was, because I was young.
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[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".
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You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into it.
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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
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Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
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With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.
