Tommy Franks Quotes
As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
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I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
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There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.
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I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.
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When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
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I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
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In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you can't construct this carefully planned out arc for your character. You often get a script and you're shooting it two days later, and you don't know what's going to happen next. It's one of the harder things that I've done.
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What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.
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I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
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I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.
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Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)
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If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.
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Some things just have a short, beautiful life, and some things have a longer one. One hopes that the things that go a long time are things that you love. It's like a relationship. The longer things go, you have to really work on that relationship with your character, with your castmates, the crew your working for, the producers, and the writers.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.
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As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
