Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes
Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.
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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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I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.
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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.
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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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Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
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Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.
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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
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The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
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Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.
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I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
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When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.
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I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
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You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
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I did a series of these soft-core horror movies called 'Mirror Mirror.' I got killed in 'em all - and each time, I came back as a different character. They were all straight-to-video.
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I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.
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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.
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There have been a couple of times when kids that weren't nice to me in high school are like, 'Hey, man!' And I'm just like, 'Yeah. Thank you very much.'
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As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs.
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But the difference between the little pieces and the big pieces - I'm not actually sure which are the little pieces. With some of the big pieces, it's a lot of musical running around, whereas the little pieces, you can say everything you want to say.
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Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.
