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AASIF MANDVI TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's m...
WILLIE GARSON When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
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When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE![]()
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
SAMUEL BUTLER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession...
CHRISTIAN BALE![]()
I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will neve...
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TAYLOR SCHILLING![]()
I feel 'The Night Circus' has a complete story arc in one book. I like it as a single volume...
ERIN MORGENSTERN![]()
I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of...
ANNA KENDRICK I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult t...
KATHERINE WATERSTON![]()
All's well that carries on well
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TEKOA MANNING If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what g...
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A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly,...
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Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can...
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Life is a re-discovery.
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GARY F EVANS...![]()
Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER![]()
Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a char...
JEZ BUTTERWORTH On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
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STANISLAS WAWRINKA![]()
When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particul...
CATE BLANCHETT![]()
There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't rea...
STANLEY DONEN People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character w...
TOM FELTON![]()
There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that'...
CLIVE OWEN When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's s...
BILL SKARSGARD![]()
I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then t...
JAMES WAN For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
MAE WHITMAN If there is “better”, then there is a “best”. If there is “half”, then there is a “com...
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But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's i...
NEIL LABUTE![]()
Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE 'Among Friends' was really well written and had strong characters, and while all the element...
DANIELLE HARRIS If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether i...
ERIC FELLNER![]()
A little of the sketch character Pootie Tang went a long way on HBO's now late, probably soon to...
ELVIS MITCHELL I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, yo...
ADDISON TIMLIN![]()
There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
RICHARD GERE The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives...
GARTH DAVIS The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or...
ALEX PETTYFER Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face...
LANCE HENRIKSEN The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's...
HUGH GRANT![]()
You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH![]()
What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to bein...
MARK HADDON![]()
Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, ...
LEE DANIELS I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n...
RUTH NEGGA![]()
Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to ...
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense ...
LARRY HAGMAN I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different characte...
VALERIE AZLYNN As a songwriter and as a vocalist, Adele is amazing. You have that. But then there's something a...
GREG KURSTIN![]()
Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that yo...
PAUL GREENGRASS I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your ty...
PATRICK WARBURTON If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if...
DARIO ARGENTO The only time that I really go on Twitter is to promote, because what sucks is there's some weir...
MICHAEL PENA There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way...
IDRIS ELBA![]()
Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN![]()
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is ea...
JOHN LITHGOW![]()
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the sam...
BILLY CONNOLLY![]()
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's som...
YANN MARTEL![]()
The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it...
TRACY LETTS Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as...
ERIC DANE![]()
I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just...
GUY PEARCE![]()
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
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The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, ...
SHARON OLDS The greatest thing in life is finding someone who knows all about you and your mistakes, and still s...
DHARM BABU![]()
I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinnin...
ALAN ARKIN Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film...
JEREMY BULLOCH When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another par...
ALEX GARLAND![]()
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
VACLAV HAVEL I came with him on one of his last trips to America. The character in the film is really based upon ...
ROGER DONALDSON You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS![]()
My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I...
BIG SMO![]()
Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able ...
ELISABETH SHUE![]()
This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to...
GOTYE![]()
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI![]()
Looper is another great film.
DEYTH BANGER It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've go...
DAMIAN LEWIS
DAN FUTTERMAN
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. PATRICE LECONTE
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, w...
DANIEL DAE KIM Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world ...
DAN GILROY
The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and ... AASIF MANDVI TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's m...
WILLIE GARSON When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing ...
AMANDA ABBINGTON The pace is different on a film set. It's slightly slower, allowing for a little more wiggle roo...
JODI BALFOUR
When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE
I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing... LOUIS THEROUX
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. SAMUEL BUTLER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession... CHRISTIAN BALE
I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will neve... XAVIER DOLAN On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I feel 'The Night Circus' has a complete story arc in one book. I like it as a single volume... ERIN MORGENSTERN
I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of... ANNA KENDRICK I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult t...
KATHERINE WATERSTON
All's well that carries on well AMIT ABRAHAM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what g...
OLIVIA COOKE Pressure is showing on the BMC they want to ban a lot of things and bring down a lot of things. The ...
APURVA GAGLANI
A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly,... JASON STATHAM
Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can... ALDEN EHRENREICH
Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a char...
JEZ BUTTERWORTH On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
ANTHONY DANIELS When you win a big title like the French Open, it's tough. The emotion in doing this is really u...
STANISLAS WAWRINKA
When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particul... CATE BLANCHETT
There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't rea... STANLEY DONEN People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character w...
TOM FELTON
There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that'... CLIVE OWEN When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's s...
BILL SKARSGARD
I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then t... JAMES WAN For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
MAE WHITMAN If there is “better”, then there is a “best”. If there is “half”, then there is a “com...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI
But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's i... NEIL LABUTE
Mother Superior jump the gun...-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE 'Among Friends' was really well written and had strong characters, and while all the element...
DANIELLE HARRIS If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether i...
ERIC FELLNER
A little of the sketch character Pootie Tang went a long way on HBO's now late, probably soon to... ELVIS MITCHELL I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, yo...
ADDISON TIMLIN
There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character. RICHARD GERE The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives...
GARTH DAVIS The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or...
ALEX PETTYFER Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face...
LANCE HENRIKSEN The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's...
HUGH GRANT
You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors ... CHRIS HEMSWORTH
What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to bein... MARK HADDON
Life is a lot like skateboarding. LIL WAYNE I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, ...
LEE DANIELS I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n...
RUTH NEGGA
Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to ... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense ...
LARRY HAGMAN I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different characte...
VALERIE AZLYNN As a songwriter and as a vocalist, Adele is amazing. You have that. But then there's something a...
GREG KURSTIN
Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that yo...
PAUL GREENGRASS I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your ty...
PATRICK WARBURTON If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if...
DARIO ARGENTO The only time that I really go on Twitter is to promote, because what sucks is there's some weir...
MICHAEL PENA There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way...
IDRIS ELBA
Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ... AUDREY HEPBURN
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is ea... JOHN LITHGOW
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the sam... BILLY CONNOLLY
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's som... YANN MARTEL
The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it... TRACY LETTS Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as...
ERIC DANE
I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just... GUY PEARCE
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, ...
SHARON OLDS The greatest thing in life is finding someone who knows all about you and your mistakes, and still s...
DHARM BABU
I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinnin... ALAN ARKIN Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film...
JEREMY BULLOCH When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another par...
ALEX GARLAND
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. VACLAV HAVEL I came with him on one of his last trips to America. The character in the film is really based upon ...
ROGER DONALDSON You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS
My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I... BIG SMO
Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able ... ELISABETH SHUE
This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to... GOTYE
The world is a beautiful placeto be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
Looper is another great film. DEYTH BANGER It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've go...
DAMIAN LEWIS
Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is ... 
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a w... 
Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls hi... 
The will is never free -- it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in ... 
Divorce is a game played by lawyers. 
You may wear your virtues as a crown,
As you walk through life serenely,
And grace your simple... 
With hand on the spade and heart in the sky
Dress the ground and till it;
Turn in the little s... 
The berries of the brier rose
Have lost their rounded pride:
The bitter-sweet chrysanthemums
... 
It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. ... 
There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth. 
We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we shi... 
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. 