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I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me. EMRAAN HASHMI
When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don... LOIS LOWRY My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don'...
NATHAN KRESS
I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great ... RANBIR KAPOOR I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, bu...
IDRIS ELBA
When people say I look intimidating, it's hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don'... DITA VON TEESE I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audien...
DOUG HUTCHISON
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to ... LEONARD COHEN When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or a...
JUDY BLUME Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. Yo...
CAMILLA BELLE What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge...
BARKHAD ABDI When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of ...
MAHESH BABU
I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around ... ROBERT SMITH
Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play stro... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD I do like to play the darker characters; I don't really know why.
ZULEIKHA ROBINSON For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes ...
EMMANUELLE BEART The best love that you can give is to love yourself, in spite of your mistakes, in spite of your fai...
SHARLENE PRINCE, SHAROCK P. Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to pla...
DANIELLE BROOKS
In my own work, I don't have favorite characters, but I have characters that I relate to the mos... CASSANDRA CLARE
When it comes to lingerie, there are no rules. I feel the sexiest when I'm myself, no hair, no m... IRINA SHAYK
I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too muc... CHRISTIAN BALE
I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I consider myself to be a good guy so it's not hard for me to play that.
SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like ...
T.I. I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I...
NATALIE ZEA I don't want to bore people or myself - to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be bu...
DARREN BOYD
I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fi... LARRY KRAMER
I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when... SHAILENE WOODLEY
Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not v... WHIT STILLMAN
I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emo... GAUTAM SINGHANIA When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to...
LEE DANIELS People often ask whether I consider myself successful. I don't yet, because there's so much ...
DAVID ULEVITCH
I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously. STEVE BUSCEMI
My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I dou... SAM SMITH I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I ...
JAMIE DORNAN I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are...
GARRETT DILLAHUNT
There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real li... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity... CARRIE FISHER
When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and deje... KANGANA RANAUT
When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and ... YAMI GAUTAM I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecur...
EVAN DANDO
I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characte... ANDY SERKIS
I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself. TED NUGENT
I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes th... OPRAH WINFREY
I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't... AASIF MANDVI I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can ...
EWAN MCGREGOR For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have...
LUCY DAVIS
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don&#... KEVIN SPACEY
I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa... B. B. KING
With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to p... RACHEL MCADAMS
I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful an... MARK WAHLBERG At first I looked to create and get everybody involved in the game, then I looked for myself. I don'...
JAREICA HUGHES
When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you... EVA GREEN
I still catch myself trying to become the object someone imagines me to be, but then there are other... JENNY ZHANG
Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articl... JIM HENSON There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if i...
LORI FOSTER Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work ...
COREY HAIM There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish...
FRED DURST
I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an ad... PRINCE
I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatte... CONOR OBERST
I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-... RANBIR KAPOOR I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're d...
EDDIE MARSAN
I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are... VANESSA HUDGENS
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, a... JOHN CUSACK I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are dif...
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA I don't believe that directors need to essentially manipulate actors into doing things. You can ...
RUTH NEGGA I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ...
RACHEL WEISZ I want to do well for myself and my sponsors... but I feel no pressure, because I don't play for...
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I g...
OTIS BLACKWELL
TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wr... CHRISTOPHER MELONI
I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None. GARY JOHNSON
I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. I don't fit that mould. EMMA WATSON One of my concerns is that writers will begin to feel the censor on their backs, and we won't get th...
JUDY BLUME
I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself. DANNY STRONG
What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to sl... RICHARD RUSSO When I was asked to compose a score for... 'Palo Alto,' I first thought to myself, 'What...
DEV HYNES
My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don't use it to pray before a competition. I'll... SIMONE BILES
I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters. BRIDGIT MENDLER
There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comf... RANDEEP HOODA One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure ...
BILL VIOLA
One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I co... LEONARD COHEN
I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would... EMINEM I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't...
MICHAEL SCHENKER I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius -...
MICHEL GONDRY People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
DANIEL MELGAçO
The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of mysel... ZACH ANNER I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
BARBARA DELINSKY
I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who... RYAN GOSLING If I watch something, I want to be wondering what is going to happen next; I want to be engaged in a...
EWEN BREMNER
I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to wh... MAHERSHALA ALI
I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry an... RACHAEL RAY
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p... LEBRON JAMES It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a ...
GARTH ENNIS
It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about ... BETH DITTO
When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the ri... JOHN LE CARRE I don't like to watch myself. For the most part, I find it weird. It depresses me; I'm very ...
ELIZABETH REASER
There are times I felt insecure or not sure: I'm unsure of myself, or I get nervous, but nerves ... CHELSEA HANDLER
I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. BRYAN ADAMS
