David Hudgins Quotes

When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do in every situation because it's a very, very fast paced business. You do ninety pages a day on a Soap Opera. It's insane. It's such a small world, the soaps. It's all contained in one little studio.

David Hudgins

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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Business
  • Start
  • Christmas

• Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Audience
  • Innocent

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Done
  • Character
  • Past

• When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Good
  • Long
  • Character

• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Books

• I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Great
  • Real
  • Character

• My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Good
  • Character
  • Enjoy

• I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Business
  • Comedy

• We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Studio
  • Allow
  • Geniuses

• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Change
  • Situation
  • Able

• We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Character
  • Story
  • Meaning

• A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Past

• Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Character
  • Mice
  • Epiphany

• People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • Angry

• I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.

  

  will.i.am
  • Made
  • India
  • Russia

• I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

  

  George Meyer
  • Position
  • Guess
  • Agnostic

• Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

  

  Dan Benishek
  • Enough
  • Debt
  • Arrogance

• When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do in every situation because it's a very, very fast paced business. You do ninety pages a day on a Soap Opera. It's insane. It's such a small world, the soaps. It's all contained in one little studio.

  

  David Hudgins
  • Business
  • Character
  • Situation