Finn Jones Quotes

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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  Rachel Stevens
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• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

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• In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

  

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• It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn't seem possible; that seems insane.

  

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• The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

  

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• When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

  

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• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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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.

  

  Tamra Davis
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• As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• 'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.

  

  Victoria Hanley
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• Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

  

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• A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Done
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• I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

  Jack Huston
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• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

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• For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.

  

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• Character is a journey, not a destination.

  

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• When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

  

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• The young people today are the 21st century.

  

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• Normally, people who are frustrated out in the water are frustrated on land. They brought their frustration with them. If you go to a beach where there are a hundred guys out, and you paddle out looking to ride waves alone, you're setting yourself up.

  

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• Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It can be interesting - if you have another outlet.

  

  John Gregory Dunne
  • Work
  • Nature
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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.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Story