Nikolai Leskov Quotes
In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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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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Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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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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So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
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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 Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.
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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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I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
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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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[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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I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.
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That is the beauty of having characters that don't make a big deal out of being gay, or lesbian, or whatever. They are just what they are, and that is acceptable - and that nobody should question that and that love is love.
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'Yeh Hai Aashiqui - Siyappa Ishq Ka' has become a part of who I am. I will be narrating the stories, and as a narrator, I get to experience each story up close and personal and go through the same range of emotions as the characters.
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Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very conscious of the conversations I'm pushing about different threads and themes around landscape and characters that exist - how it's pictured, who's pictured it, who's owned it and who's been able to inhabit certain spaces. I have other interests as well. I'm really obsessed now with going to gay male dance clubs. I find those thrilling. I'm interested in what future characters can come.
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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Whether it's a big dinner party or people just coming over to hang out, I just love to spend time with them.
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You hang out with trash and you start to smell like garbage.
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In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.
