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I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.

~Finn Wittrock

Topics: Acting Actions Character Creating Else Every Getting Inside Language Picture Same See Skin Some Someone Structure Think Understand Ways Whole Writer Writing You I Think

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So I just play the character, I play the lines.

~Fiona Shaw

Topics: Character Just Lines Play

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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

~Fisher Stevens

Topics: Answer Been Bit Character Gambling Got Playing Prayers Problem Started Too Used Worse Would

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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: About Action Brutal Character Grace Hard Hopeless Most People Stories Support Think Very Who Willing

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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

~Florence Welch

Topics: Album Aspect Background Because Before Character Choice Colour Critics First Fought Got Hair Hard Lot Music Overtake Personality Quite Released Scrutiny Started

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But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

~Florence Welch

Topics: Alluring Always Becoming Been Character Clothes Dream Escapism Fashion Interested Just Magazines Me More Much Music Quite Reading Romanticism Sense Teenager Than Through Well

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It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

~Florenz Ziegfeld

Topics: Actually Character Definitely Either Even Fact Feature Fixed Future Girl May Mind Months My Own Own Playing Production Rehearsing Several Some Task Training While

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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Character Engine Flatten Focus Ignore Imbalance Intensity Literary Lofty Lose Novels Plot Poems Prose Risk Stall Writing

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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

~Flume

Topics: Bit Character Dress Like Scared Stage Up

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As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Actor Always Been Character Characters Connect Connection Doing Done Energy Enter Find Help Me Others Person Some Spirit Things Together Us Want Wanted Would Years You

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