Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
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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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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.
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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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When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater on a larger scale. I'm just excited for the next thing that comes along that I'm salivating over. I think a little more guerrilla would be really exciting to me.
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
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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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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.
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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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There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.
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If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.
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My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.
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Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and chopped up and put back together, etc. Occasionally, though rarely, a poem just plops out of my head fully-formed. But always it is a blueprint of what my brain is trying to navigate at that moment.
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Work for the formation of the wildlife crime cell is in progress.
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Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.
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The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.
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I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
