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.

Michael Eklund

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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?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Wonder
  • Film
  • Enough

• I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Middle

• 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 dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Work
  • Character
  • Loyalty

• 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
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Character
  • Human
  • Hero

• Everyone is going to die.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Going
  • Everyone

• When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Idea
  • Passionate
  • Cinema

• I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Work
  • Character
  • Energy

• 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.

  

  Tana French
  • World
  • Character
  • Doing

• A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Character
  • Festival
  • Rebuild

• Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Witches

• 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.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Game
  • Study

• 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.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Character
  • Career
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Character
  • Perspective
  • Down

• If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

  

  Larry David
  • Going
  • Talk
  • Would

• Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Nature

• Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Character
  • Beautiful
  • Purpose

• Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Character

• When John Lennon left the Beatles and started making music with Yoko Ono, many people scoffed at the idea. How could this talented man with so many hit songs give it all up? Well, we all know it was love, but beyond that, it was a leap of faith to try something new.

  

  Ashley Bryan
  • People
  • Music
  • Faith

• Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • People
  • Like
  • Chance

• The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

  

  Louis Freeh
  • Country
  • September

• 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.

  

  Michael Eklund
  • Character
  • Film
  • Idea