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Quotes about character
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing. (Cross David)
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had. (Cross David)
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. (Cross David)
The thing about child actors is that you either have the weird personality that can do it and remain well adjusted and have a real strength of character, or you just don't have that make up. (Cross David)
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How many times do you get to play five different characters in one movie and have Rob Reiner direct it? I jumped at that opportunity. (Cross David)
“My character forms a great relationship with the car as well, which at first I thought was silly. I thought, 'How am I going to talk to a car?' But you know I wanted to bring that relationship to life and people can see how cute Herbie can be. It's like a pet.” (Cross David)
Jane's idea was to remove artifice and show people in the middle of passion by just letting it evolve before the camera. It's as if you're peering through a camera at the characters' private lives. (Cross David)
“Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.” (Cross David)
From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters. (Cross David)
Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense. (Cross David)
I got to play a character that required me to throw everything heavy away. No one thought I could handle this kind of character or do multidimensional stuff. (Cross David)
I was counting on the fact that Hopper playing an LA speed freak would ensure that the audience would turn to my character. (Cross David)
In any good traveling western, some of the characters die. (Cross David)
Nobody's that cool. It was just a character I made up. I was more along the lines of, Acting must be in the genes, and Who the hell is Henry Fonda? (Cross David)
You don't become the character. (Cross David)
When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character. (Cross David)
“I think it's pretty unequivocal, this character does not get off the hook for his actions on any level.” (Cross David)
“I do not like assassins, or men of low character.” (Cross David)
“You get to follow the same character through a lot of the same ups and downs that you go through in your own life. I can't imagine any place else where you get to do that and what a thrill it is. It's not about finding the character any more. It's about actually being in it and going where ever she goes.” (Cross David)
“It's not about finding the character any more. It's about actually being in it and going wherever she goes.” (Cross David)
“I had an idea of what David Kelley wanted the character to do, ... He really wanted this very sort of volatile force at this well-established firm on 'The Practice' ... to stir things up.” (Cross David)
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny. (Cross David)
“It's bizarre, because you'd kind of expect it to happen at the end but it happens right at the beginning, ... And throughout the film you kind of see my character constantly trying to get something off his chest, only his family and all the adults around him are oblivious to their kids and what their kids need. So there's this yearning for someone to listen to what his problem is.” (Cross David)
“It's very much an ensemble film — I can't stress that enough because all the actors I worked with are all tremendous, ... Many different things happen within the film, the characters kind of intertwine and by the end, they come to the same level and connect. So it's hard to explain, but basically it's about dysfunctional youth and families in suburban America.” (Cross David)
Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause. (Cross David)
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