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EVANS G. VALENS![]()
If you can relate to what the character's going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possi...
DREW GODDARD A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a cha...
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE![]()
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD There's a stigma on the word 'therapy.' People relate it to big problems. That's som...
JUAN PABLO GALAVIS I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of peo...
BLU CANTRELL![]()
When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.
ANSEL ELGORT![]()
It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is ...
CHRIS PINE When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of yo...
NATHALIE KELLEY![]()
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER![]()
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - ...
LEE HALL![]()
When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane....
JOHNNY DEPP There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way...
IDRIS ELBA![]()
Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just...
DARYL HANNAH But for me, I prefer to play the more rugged character because it's more real. ... More people can r...
JAIME PRESSLY The screenplay has to be gripping. That's when the film will work. Then, I see how much I can re...
DHANUSH I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no ...
SAM CLAFLIN I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or...
ANDREA CORR I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the...
TAISSA FARMIGA The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or...
ALEX PETTYFER Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed...
ANN EDWARDS CANNON![]()
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN![]()
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, ...
CONOR OBERST![]()
You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powe...
PAUL DANO It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebo...
SHERILYN FENN In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fi...
KARA HAYWARD The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that ma...
GARY SINISE![]()
It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.
ADELE Football is in a guy's DNA. A primal thing. You should play it so you can talk about the glory d...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS![]()
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
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RICK DANKO If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have th...
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Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you...
TOM TANCREDO My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are...
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When people say I look intimidating, it's hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don'...
DITA VON TEESE![]()
It's always fun to play a character that bends the rules.
MIKE COLTER If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a char...
JEZ BUTTERWORTH When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional...
FARAN TAHIR I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my so...
DIANE WARREN![]()
You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends...
MATTHEW LEWIS![]()
Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero - maybe ever - because he goes through somethi...
TOM HOLLAND![]()
People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.
JANET JACKSON I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when some...
BILL DICKEY If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that ca...
STEVE COOGAN Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER![]()
When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my ...
BILL DELAHUNT![]()
These guys get it when it comes to talking about pornography in a way people can relate to,
BILL HYBELS![]()
When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,&#...
DAN QUINN One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spe...
ZOE MCLELLAN When people say, 'You run like a girl; you play like a girl,' it's not what it used to b...
ALEX MORGAN Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it ...
BAZ LUHRMANN Not many people get to play the lead character in a gigantic film and model for Ralph Lauren; it'...
LEVI MILLER If you meet someone on the street that likes something that you did or likes the way you brought thi...
ELDEN HENSON![]()
It's so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It'...
ALESSIA CARA When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not w...
NATHAN FILLION Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN![]()
When you think of things like medicine, people who have lost limbs now have a chance to have a limb ...
GEMMA CHAN Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? ...
MEGAN MULLALLY I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That...
LARRY FITZGERALD It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get thing...
ALLISON TOLMAN I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded chara...
BEL POWLEY![]()
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means th...
ANDREW WILES![]()
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.
KARINE VANASSE I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.
KARINE VANASSE I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot epi...
KARINE VANASSE I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
KARINE VANASSE I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and...
KARINE VANASSE When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, i...
KARINE VANASSE As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, b...
KARINE VANASSE It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.
KARINE VANASSE 'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during t...
KARINE VANASSE You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
KARINE VANASSE I love to fly so much.
KARINE VANASSE We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we ap...
KARINE VANASSE As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, yo...
KARINE VANASSE I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don&#...
KARINE VANASSE Gloves make you so much more delicate.
KARINE VANASSE It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for w...
KARINE VANASSE When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many...
SIMON BAKER![]()
I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's...
ELODIE YUNG![]()
I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.
CHEVY CHASE![]()
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER![]()
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that...
ALAN RICKMAN Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I ...
EMILY RIOS When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I...
VICTOR ORTIZ
EVANS G. VALENS
If you can relate to what the character's going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possi... DREW GODDARD A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a cha...
MADHUR MITTAL
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD There's a stigma on the word 'therapy.' People relate it to big problems. That's som...
JUAN PABLO GALAVIS I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of peo...
BLU CANTRELL
When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences. ANSEL ELGORT
It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is ... CHRIS PINE When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of yo...
NATHALIE KELLEY
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - ... LEE HALL
When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane.... JOHNNY DEPP There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way...
IDRIS ELBA
Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just... DARYL HANNAH But for me, I prefer to play the more rugged character because it's more real. ... More people can r...
JAIME PRESSLY The screenplay has to be gripping. That's when the film will work. Then, I see how much I can re...
DHANUSH I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no ...
SAM CLAFLIN I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or...
ANDREA CORR I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the...
TAISSA FARMIGA The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or...
ALEX PETTYFER Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed...
ANN EDWARDS CANNON
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, ... CONOR OBERST
You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powe... PAUL DANO It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebo...
SHERILYN FENN In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fi...
KARA HAYWARD The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that ma...
GARY SINISE
It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them. ADELE Football is in a guy's DNA. A primal thing. You should play it so you can talk about the glory d...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
When you're little, you're open to things. It's not like you get into this rehearsed zon... KIRSTEN DUNST When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could re...
RICK DANKO If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have th...
DANIEL BRUHL
Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you... TOM TANCREDO My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are...
VANESSA LACHEY
When people say I look intimidating, it's hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don'... DITA VON TEESE
It's always fun to play a character that bends the rules. MIKE COLTER If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a char...
JEZ BUTTERWORTH When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional...
FARAN TAHIR I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my so...
DIANE WARREN
You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends... MATTHEW LEWIS
Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero - maybe ever - because he goes through somethi... TOM HOLLAND
People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you. JANET JACKSON I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when some...
BILL DICKEY If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that ca...
STEVE COOGAN Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER
When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as ... CHRISTOPHER GUEST This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my ...
BILL DELAHUNT
These guys get it when it comes to talking about pornography in a way people can relate to, BILL HYBELS
When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,&#... DAN QUINN One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spe...
ZOE MCLELLAN When people say, 'You run like a girl; you play like a girl,' it's not what it used to b...
ALEX MORGAN Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it ...
BAZ LUHRMANN Not many people get to play the lead character in a gigantic film and model for Ralph Lauren; it'...
LEVI MILLER If you meet someone on the street that likes something that you did or likes the way you brought thi...
ELDEN HENSON
It's so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It'... ALESSIA CARA When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not w...
NATHAN FILLION Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN
When you think of things like medicine, people who have lost limbs now have a chance to have a limb ... GEMMA CHAN Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? ...
MEGAN MULLALLY I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That...
LARRY FITZGERALD It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get thing...
ALLISON TOLMAN I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded chara...
BEL POWLEY
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means th... ANDREW WILES
if it doesn't come bursting out of youin spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.
KARINE VANASSE I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.
KARINE VANASSE I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot epi...
KARINE VANASSE I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
KARINE VANASSE I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and...
KARINE VANASSE When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, i...
KARINE VANASSE As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, b...
KARINE VANASSE It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.
KARINE VANASSE 'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during t...
KARINE VANASSE You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
KARINE VANASSE I love to fly so much.
KARINE VANASSE We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we ap...
KARINE VANASSE As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, yo...
KARINE VANASSE I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don&#...
KARINE VANASSE Gloves make you so much more delicate.
KARINE VANASSE It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for w...
KARINE VANASSE When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many...
SIMON BAKER
I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's... ELODIE YUNG
I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny. CHEVY CHASE
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of... EDWARD HOPPER
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that... ALAN RICKMAN Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I ...
EMILY RIOS When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I...
VICTOR ORTIZ
