Philip Seymour Hoffman
Related What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. ... MADHURI DIXIT MARC JACOBS I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ... RACHEL WEISZ I might play characters that are loud in the movies, but in real life, I'm not loud in terms of ... DULQUER SALMAAN ROBERT DE NIRO You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the poi... JOHN HARTFORD I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO COLIN TREVORROW S. E. HINTON Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjo... SACHA BARON COHEN MARK WAID I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say st... ANUSHKA SHARMA Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they cre... CHELSEA CAIN SEBASTIAN THRUN TERRY PRATCHETT DYLAN MORAN KEVIN SPACEY A. S. BYATT PARK CHAN-WOOK Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are. They think they're doing one... DAVID RABE Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear ... DARIO ARGENTO The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them ... VALORIE CURRY BARBARA HERSHEY Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of wome... MILA KUNIS You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to... GREG BERLANTI I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are rea... JONATHAN EVISON They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attra... GUY RITCHIE In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad ch... DARREN STAR There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're intere... ELLEN POMPEO LAURENCE FISHBURNE VIKRAM SETH I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is th... SHANE CARRUTH BILLY CRUDUP ALAN FURST I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest ... BARRY DILLER All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female character... OPHELIA LOVIBOND The movie truism is that stars play themselves, while actors play other people - troubled or toxic, ... RICHARD CORLISS LOUIS GOSSETT, JR. You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern h... JANE GOLDMAN J. J. ABRAMS EMRAAN HASHMI All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they t... AL STEWART ELLSWORTH KELLY I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's ran... ERIC JEROME DICKEY LOIS LOWRY Arcade-game characters have no free will. They're programmed to do one thing day in and day out ... RICH MOORE I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them a... TARA STRONG I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are... GARRETT DILLAHUNT JIM CRAMER MAHERSHALA ALI CASSANDRA CLARE REBECCA HALL DEYTH BANGER I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's lik... OSCAR ISAAC BRUCE BERESFORD JEFFREY FRY STEVEN WRIGHT My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't. JULIE KENNER My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My charac... MADHUR BHANDARKAR ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they&... SEYMOUR CASSEL JEANETTE WINTERSON I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is... CRAIG FAIRBRASS GEORGE R. R. MARTIN KEN FOLLETT RYAN GOSLING I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these ch... PATRICK MARBER DONNA MILLS We're lucky enough, especially in these 'Madagascar' films, to be working with some of t... ERIC DARNELL I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're d... EDDIE MARSAN I play guys who are willing to go really far. If the dung really hits the fan, I don't know if I... ELIAS KOTEAS I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters t... AUBREY PLAZA JULIETTE LEWIS JASON ALEXANDER I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those wo... ABBI JACOBSON EMRAAN HASHMI Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have ... UWE BOLL KEVIN COSTNER I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what... DIANA GALBADON DIANA GABALDON New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neig... MIKE D MARTHA BECK I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious ... TODD HAYNES CARRIE-ANNE MOSS Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing... JOHN LOGAN Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist. PATRICIA POLACCO WAYNE DYER LOUIS C. K. I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to wr... RUTH OZEKI CLIVE OWEN SCOTT DERRICKSON VERONICA ROTH JIM HENSON Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so. LARRY DRAKE My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world... SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH SIDNEY SHELDON EVANNA LYNCH DAVID O. RUSSELL BILL NIGHY ASHTON KUTCHER
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ANDRE SEYMOUR Our boxers need technical support and we need the technical coaches who work them to travel with the... ANDRE SEYMOUR If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? SEYMOUR CRAY JANE SEYMOUR JANE SEYMOUR I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches. RICHARD SEYMOUR JANE SEYMOUR JANE SEYMOUR JANE SEYMOUR I love living with animals. And my children love animals. I love walking around and being with the h... STEPHANIE SEYMOUR I'm only a housewife, I'm afraid." How often do we hear this shocking admission. I'm afraid when I h... JOHN SEYMOUR JANE SEYMOUR JANE SEYMOUR JANE SEYMOUR JANE SEYMOUR JANE SEYMOUR JANE SEYMOUR Obviously 1 October is within that 30-day period. The earliest we could do it and protect those indi... JOHN SEYMOUR JANE SEYMOUR Grooming is 10 times more important than makeup. I use a hair gloss with a teeny bit of color in it ... STEPHANIE SEYMOUR A lot of kids don't realize he was a minister, that he had a number of college degrees, that he won ... ZOE SEYMOUR Thrumpton Hall can be thought of as a venerable old lady, ageing gracefully. But I didn't always... MIRANDA SEYMOUR It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell o... SEYMOUR HERSH JANE SEYMOUR JANE SEYMOUR I'm playing a key position in the side and it sort of starts there and pans out. I want to make this... BRETT SEYMOUR What determined whether the people before my eyes really are themselves, was my own self. If I were ... SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER Hunter and John [Belushi] both shared a sense of possibility, and they seemed to have no limits. The... COREY SEYMOUR John Belushi had that aura of someone who doesn't have a lot of time - that's why he was a little fr... COREY SEYMOUR I don't even know if it's this state, but if you're making a horror movie with some nudity, it's a b... EDWARD SEYMOUR The best book a writer can ever write is a book that chooses its readers, not the other way around. SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER JANE SEYMOUR I prefer Hot Dogs over dogs and Kit Kats over cats anytime. At least these two are edible. SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER We leave a part of us at every break up, try tearing a pinch of flesh out of your arms, it hurts as ... SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER Paper is more patient than man, but it is still nothing compared to a good friend. SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER It's more of a parody. We didn't start that way, but the way we write and think, it turns into a com... EDWARD SEYMOUR I'd like to see something similar to the program that was in place back when Jimmy Carter was presid... DAN SEYMOUR When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the... SEYMOUR CASSEL We've been used to kind of playing till the final game is over with. 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RICHARD SEYMOUR We have the talent with Ty Warren , Jarvis Green, Big Wilfork and it's just a matter of going out an... RICHARD SEYMOUR The Slaying of Jean Charles de Menezes RICHARD SEYMOUR It's good for Ty. I think he went through a little bit of a tough time, trying to find his place, tr... RICHARD SEYMOUR Our commander said
the Viet Cong are farmers
by day.. guerillas by night.
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