Quentin Tarantino Quotes
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
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There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.
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Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
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I've always considered myself a character actor.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
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If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process into one of censorship, we will risk turning teens off books and sending them elsewhere - to their X-Boxes, for instance. To the Internet. And they won't ever come back to books.
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Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation.. .From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought.
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When we are inclined to boast of our position as Christians we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.
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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
