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The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters.
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.
Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'
Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.
Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.
I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.
In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.
I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash.
I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they're boys or girls.
I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.
I've always boxed a certain way. But with Rocky, the character himself had to be kind of awkward. So I had to learn to fight that way.
Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.
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.
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.
In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.
Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on
I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.
OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end loads of polish people turn up.
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.
My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.
I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.
I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.
Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.
The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.
I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.