Nicholas Blincoe Quotes

I'm the opposite of the character in my novel: I've become more right-wing as I've got older.

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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.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Intriguing

• I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Real
  • Me
  • Day

• Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Know
  • Me
  • Movies

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Country
  • Free
  • Way

• You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Know
  • Down

• If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Character
  • Magic
  • First

• There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years and challenged themselves with different roles. That's impressive.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Different
  • Women
  • Character

• Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Know

• The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Character
  • Best
  • Crime

• I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.

  

  Jean Nouvel
  • Character
  • City
  • Identity

• My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • People
  • Men
  • Character

• One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the quality of their thought is very closely identified and analysed.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • People
  • Character
  • Quality

• I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Character
  • Interesting

• When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Character

• I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• If you're going to make a movie about a character who is a supervillain, it's fantastic to have a core sense of empathy for that character.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Empathy

• I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.

  

  Andrea Corr
  • Believe
  • Action

• When the amalgam is delivered to your dentist in a special protective box, he has to take extreme caution when handling the stuff: with masks, gloves, gowns, goggles, all needed to protect him from danger. He then drills your teeth and rams the mixture into your cavities, whereupon it becomes miraculously, instantly safe!

  

  Jasper Carrott

• The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

  

  Phil Bredesen
  • America
  • Visions
  • Undiscovered

• I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent, because the emotional arcs and changes that you can follow are just so much more like a novel, and so many amazing shows recently have done as much as film can do to show the interior world.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • World
  • Long
  • Done

• I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Star

• I'm the opposite of the character in my novel: I've become more right-wing as I've got older.

  

  Nicholas Blincoe
  • Character
  • Right
  • Older