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I'd rather concentrate on making my character more convincing than trying to prove my acting prowess.
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.
I find, as a woman and as a producer, I spend a lot of time convincing people I actually did the work.
I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.
I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.
There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accordingly.
The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.
Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
There are millions of people who do want help. I'm not going to waste my time convincing people who aren't receptive.
In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.
The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.
Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.
I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
At the end of the day, I say, 'You do you.' You shouldn't be focusing on convincing people what your sexual orientation is.
If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.
No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.
It's the little added bonus of realism that makes the difference between an adequately done stunt and a really convincing one.
We have a very robust online business, but convincing luxury houses to join us on the website has involved a lot of groveling.
I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.
I'm used to people not getting it. I'll make amazing music, but it's convincing people that it's amazing - that's the problem.
Instead of convincing people who are opposed to your message, spend your time finding people who are already predisposed to it.
The difference between Martin Sheen and George W. Bush is Martin Sheen is actually convincing when he acts like he's president.
A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.
I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her mother is one.
Paes is very a convincing person and had informed me that Gandharva wedding was enough. My name was added in his passport as spouse.
It's not always about convincing your parents of what you want to do, but just saying, 'This is what I'm doing; this is what I love.'
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.
I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.
Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.
Rubber looks different to skin and it's very, very hard to make a prosthetic on a human look convincing if you don't light them correctly.
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.
I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
I do spend - I feel like I spend about my first 20 minutes at any cocktail party convincing people that I'm not going to harm them in some way.
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.
It's always a matter of convincing the insurance people. They seem to think that after a certain age, you're just going to fall over or something.