I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else.
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Related Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I... IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson... IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ... IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins IF I WAKE I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the cha... ESTHER ROLLE I find that if I don't have enough physical activity in life, I don't do as well with anythi... BETSY HODGES I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't ... ELLEN BARKIN When I don't have a fight scheduled, training is even more fun. I can come into the gym and work... HOLLY HOLM I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can... QUENTIN TARANTINO The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs m... JAVIER BARDEM I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air i... CRISS ANGEL I do a lot of cardio. I think it's super important, especially for women. I don't have a tre... ALISON SWEENEY It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completel... FERGIE It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you'... CRISPIN GLOVER I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved b... AMY GRANT If you can do it, why you won't do it??? If you have chance why you won't use it? DEYTH BANGER I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I... RYAN GOSLING 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 just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that'... BILL KREUTZMANN Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think... KATE ASHFIELD If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just... THOMAS J. WATSON Now, when I play soul piano, for instance, and I play a rendition of 'Spain,' I do it decons... CHICK COREA I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they sho... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Advice from my experience, for me, I've never taken no as an answer, I don't believe in that... ROMAN REIGNS If I go anywhere, and I don't have my coffee, I don't drink coffee. When I travel, I carry i... GRACE HIGHTOWER I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovabl... JULIE KAVNER My friends and family have been so well trained that they know I really mean it when I say that I do... RICHARD GREENBERG I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it. BRION JAMES Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's ... GRETCHEN RUBIN When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to ma... GREGORY MEEKS There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for ... TAYLOR PHINNEY You cannot do anything unless you allow your passion to motivate you. People may tell you, "you can ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it... YUNA I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. Tha... CRYSTAL REED I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. ... MAHESH BABU I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative ... KEVIN WILSON Training isn't fun for me. I do it because it's what my body needs, and I have a standard. I... GIANCARLO STANTON In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even us... BARRET OLIVER I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and ... KHLEO Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my C... BRADLEY COOPER I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as... RYAN GOSLING I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun. NATE DIAZ Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work.... DAKOTA FANNING I do the best I can when I'm accepting the role to say, 'This is about as much as I can do, ... BILLY CRUDUP I don't give any merit to criticism. 'Country Girls (Shake it for Me),' I can see where ... LUKE BRYAN I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting ... BRUNELLO CUCINELLI I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just f... JENNY MCCARTHY A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can... ANNE HATHAWAY I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy sayin... MARILYN MANSON My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don'... NATHAN KRESS I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that... DYLAN MORAN I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu... JACK COLEMAN If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how p... JIM LEHRER When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, ... OMAR SY I can see only three planets in the entire universe, namely Heaven, Earth and Me! Heaven shines its ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it. FRANK GEHRY I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical c... BERNIE MAC If I don't love my character, I can't do it. TAHAR RAHIM When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the ... JOHN POMFRET For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, becau... KATE MCKINNON There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a h... TROMBONE SHORTY I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'... TAISSA FARMIGA I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person'... TYLER JOSEPH I can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like... STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that... RICHARD PRYOR 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 have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, d... B. D. WONG I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do i... DANE COOK When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-maki... TAYLOR SWIFT I had this very strict rule when I began auditioning that I wasn't gonna do a thicker accent, be... KUMAIL NANJIANI I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'... TAJ MAHAL When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know an... CICELY TYSON I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live... LAURA BELL BUNDY I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy par... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to ... NATE DIAZ I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and peop... LORDE I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it. BILLY CHILDISH If I read a part and think I can connect to it, that I can touch people with it, I will do it, no ma... GERALDINE PAGE If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don&... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON I feel very honoured and humbled to have people think, 'If Yuna can break through, then why can&... YUNA I think I'm prouder of 'The Victim' than anything else, just because, if nothing else, i... MICHAEL BIEHN I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, fr... HELEN SUZMAN If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&... TENA DESAE It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't kn... ADAM GARCIA They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageab... IGGY AZALEA It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a... CAREY MULLIGAN I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's... JOSH CHARLES It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, t... JACKIE ROBINSON There's a certain time that when somebody asks you a question, you answer them. I don't thin... REGGIE JACKSON Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a... ALICIA KEYS I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I&... STEPHEN BAYLEY To me, accessorizing is the most fun part of an outfit. While I don't think you can't rely o... ANNA KENDRICK I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself a... JOHN MALKOVICH I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn&... BILL GOLDBERG To me, it's really easy to feel glamorous and beautiful with red lips. It's great because yo... RASHIDA JONES I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distract... QUENTIN BLAKE My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. I... BEN SAUNDERS It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do t... REE DRUMMOND
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JACK HANNAH Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to th... HANNAH ARENDT I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we wou... HANNAH MURRAY I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landsc... HANNAH KENT 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to... HANNAH MURRAY A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means. BARRY HANNAH I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm no... BARRY HANNAH I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by me... BARRY HANNAH I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village. BARRY HANNAH My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insuranc... BARRY HANNAH I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague.... BARRY HANNAH I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I need... BARRY HANNAH I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like... BARRY HANNAH I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it ... BARRY HANNAH I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've... BARRY HANNAH My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all. BARRY HANNAH Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write so... BARRY HANNAH I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly.... BARRY HANNAH My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mothe... BARRY HANNAH Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club... BARRY HANNAH Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is ess... BARRY HANNAH When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thi... BARRY HANNAH Love and despair go hand in hand. BARRY HANNAH I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of... BARRY HANNAH I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise. BARRY HANNAH I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work in... BARRY HANNAH A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't. BARRY HANNAH I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That... BARRY HANNAH Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain ... BARRY HANNAH Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little aw... BARRY HANNAH I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook a... HANNAH STORM Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah. HANOI HANNAH I had to do something for the country. HANOI HANNAH And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers. HANOI HANNAH We advised them to do what they think proper against the war. HANOI HANNAH Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast... HANOI HANNAH It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the Fr... HANOI HANNAH Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours. HANOI HANNAH I would like to see America some day. HANOI HANNAH