I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
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Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves.
quote by Michael Cunningham
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I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.
Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
quote by Bebe Neuwirth
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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
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Movie Memories
Holding hands at the movies
waiting for the lights to dim.
Anticipating the characters on the screen
but thinking of only him.
The one beside you, not on the screen.
His arm now on your shoulder.
You feel the length of his arm.
He becomes a little bit bolder.
You see the characters on the screen.
All are playing their part.
You forget the name of the movie
but not what's happening to your heart.
The lights come on all too soon
but not before he kisses you.
Great to be a teen-ager.
Sorry, the movie is through.
poem by Edwina Reizer
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It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.
quote by Matt Groening
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Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.
quote by Joan Collins
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I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.
quote by Nick Cannon
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I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.
quote by Tom Berenger
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I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.
quote by Juliette Binoche
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I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.
quote by Monica Keena
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
quote by Aaron Eckhart
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I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer.
quote by Alison Lohman
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There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.
quote by Tara Strong
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That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.
quote by James McAvoy
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And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
quote by Brian De Palma
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I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.
quote by Jodie Foster
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You can never judge your characters. You have to love them, really care about them. You're never just playing a villain or the crazy lady.
quote by Annabella Sciorra
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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
quote by Bela Lugosi
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A Mirror Image
How many times when reading a book,
do we identify with the characters within?
Their traits they have we share,
their loves and heartaches
their lives go through somehow mirror our own.
It’s as if the author was writing about us.
As though he has put us under a microscope
and then writing down everything, he saw.
However, we know this isn’t so
because he or she has written
segments of their own life
and by accident they happen to mirror ours.
Every writer will tell you
that they have their characters under control.
Having written numerous novels,
I know the characters take on a life of their own
and do what they want to do.
We become their instrument as they guide us on our way.
We end up writing what they want us to say.
To every writer his characters are real,
they live, breathe and feel.
The more you write about them,
the more alive they become.
So the next time you pick up a book
and the characters seem real,
they probably are to the author
who looks after them.
24 September 2008
poem by David Harris
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