Annie Potts Quotes
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.
Annie Potts
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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
There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
Zooey Deschanel
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
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
I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
V. E. Schwab
I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
Gary Sinise
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
You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
Nadia Bjorlin
I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.
Olivia De Havilland
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
Irving Langmuir
I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
Carice van Houten
My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.
Jack Huston
I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
Madchen Amick
Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
Pankaj Mishra
You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.
Adam McKay
You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.
Barry Sanders
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
F. Sionil Jose
Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.
Jacqueline McKenzie
...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
Patrick Ness
A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.
Ben Schnetzer
Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.
Douglas Alexander
I can tell there are times when my body's getting tired and I just need to take a day here or there and make sure I'm healthy.
Ben Zobrist
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.
Annie Potts
