Neil Cross Quotes
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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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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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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Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
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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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I've always considered myself a character actor.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
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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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At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.
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Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
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I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.
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Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
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My buddies all still make fun of me about the whole 'Leprechaun' thing, and I'm proud of that movie. I'm just as proud of that work as I am of anything else that I've done. I feel like where I was in my career at the time, I committed to the character.
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For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
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The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.
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The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.
