Holly Hunter Quotes
As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
Carlton Cuse
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The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.
Gabourey Sidibe
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
Zooey Deschanel
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
Victor Garber
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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
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We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.
Irwin Rose
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
Natalie Dormer
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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.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
Irrfan Khan
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2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.
Carly Fiorina
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
Katey Sagal
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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
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
Patrick Modiano
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Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.
Haley Bennett
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
F. Sionil Jose
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The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.
Sam Brownback
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We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.
Wayne Coyne
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I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist.
Karin Slaughter
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I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.
Columbus Short
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Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.
Rene Auberjonois
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I play the guitar every day.
Alice Ripley
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Their support was not needed, therefore they were not courted.
Anthony Trollope
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As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.
Holly Hunter