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I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

~Colm Feore

Topics: Characters Historical Kinds Movies Played Stuck

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Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they had been.

~Colm Toibin

Topics: Been Character Characters Describe Dialogue Done Had See Think Using Where

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I'm not a teacher; I'm not a historian. I'm trying to create a world for my characters.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Characters Create Historian Teacher Trying World

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Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.

~Colum Mccann

Topics: Am Certainly Characters Conductor Dynamic Going Group Happen How Idea Increasingly Introduced Manners Musicians Myself No Idea Play Put Solitary Some Strange Them Think Together Very Who I Think I Am

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We're trying to tell a very full story of 'Nashville' and these characters in Nashville, and I'm really hopeful that we're going to be able to do something as innovative as 'American Horror Story' and 'Friday Night Lights.' And I think so far, we're on the right path for that.

~Connie Britton

Topics: Able American Characters Far Friday Friday Night Friday Night Lights Full Going Hopeful Horror Innovative Lights Nashville Night Path Really Right Right Path Something Story Tell Think Trying Very I Think

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I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

~Conor Mcpherson

Topics: About Attracted Because Characters Guess Higher Isolation Me Older Repelled Scares Somewhat Stakes Tend Them Too Why Write

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I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

~Conor Oberst

Topics: About Archetypal Characters Convey Experience Get Goal Individual Know My Own Myself Necessarily Own People Some Truth World Write

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I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

~Conrad Hall

Topics: Bigger Characters Complex Life Picture Romantic Saw Sunrise Tequila Than

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The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

~Conrad Hall

Topics: Any Audience Characters Concentration Empathize Every Film Going Involved Making Meaning Move Process Them Understand Visualize

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It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

~Constance Wu

Topics: Able Actor Based Characters Creates Emotional Movement Myself Play Privilege Quality Somebody Speech Voice Who

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