Tom Berenger Quotes
The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.
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I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.
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I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.
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For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.
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The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.
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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
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I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
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You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
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As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
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Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.
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[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.
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Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.
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You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.
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The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.
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I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.
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Our parents taught us to work hard and never forget our family roots, where we came from, and how much effort it took to get to where we are today.
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Things could always be worse. In fact, the overwhelming odds are that they will be.
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The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.
