Playing Someone Quotes

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Lovers, Fighter

  "Why Michael Caine's daughter is banned from seeing his latest film" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.

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• As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Change, Dark, Light

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• Even when I'm playing someone named 'Fat Amy.' I'm all about confidence and attitude.

  Rebel Wilson

  Attitude, Amy, Fats

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• It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

  Michael Chiklis

  Interesting, Evil, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you take on the idea of playing someone like Jimmy Bulger, it's a radically different process because you're going into make-up. The only way you can do it is to come out of make-up looking like the guy. If you don't look like the guy, it's going to bug you, all day.

  Johnny Depp

  Ideas, Guy, Different

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.

  Tom Felton

  Temper, Loses

  "Tom Felton’s Television Villain". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2014.

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• If you're playing someone who's got marital problems, you have to play someone who's trying not to have marital problems. So, you've got to get into the problem first.

  Colin Firth

  Play, Trying, Firsts

  "Colin Firth and Tom Hooper interview: The King's Speech, Rocky IV and more". Interview with Michael Leader, www.denofgeek.com. Jan 7, 2011.

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• In The Godfather, for instance, they say they won't deal drugs because they have a code of behaviour. He is the last remnants of that. So playing someone like that, who is also in pain with his kidney stone, means you're beginning to find a dimension of the guy who is king and all show and the private guy who is in pain.

  David Suchet

  Kings, Pain, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.

  Jason Isaacs

  Thinking, Virtuous, I Can

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• If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it's that thing where people want to see a through-line to understand you. I mean, you know, I have played pretty ordinary people too.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Smart, Character, Mean

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• On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone's girlfriend here on Earth because that's a bit of a canker sore.

  Zoe Saldana

  Girlfriend, Earth, Aliens

  "‘Guardians’ Interview: Zoe Saldana on Going Green and the Importance of Teenage Boys". www.slashfilm.com. July 10, 2014.

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• I think the best roles are in dark movies. It's roles that aren't you. It's fun playing someone that's not me. If I'm playing me all the time, then it's not acting. It's just being yourself.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Being Yourself, Fun, Dark

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're playing someone who's impeded by fear, or shyness, or has whatever dysfunction your character might have, you have to achieve the dysfunction first, imaginatively, in order to play someone who is trying to negotiate their way out of it.

  Colin Firth

  Character, Dysfunction, Order

  "Colin Firth and Tom Hooper interview: The King's Speech, Rocky IV and more". Interview with Michael Leader, www.denofgeek.com. Jan 6, 2011.

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• I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to show where that person is coming from. They're doing it from a necessary impulse. There is a struggle that's going on within them as a human.

  Dane DeHaan

  Struggle, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves.

  Pam Grier

  Character, Thinking, Anxiety

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

  Shahrukh Khan

  "I love Salman so much: SRK" by Malavika Sangghvi, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. January 2, 2005.

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• When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.

  David Oyelowo

  Dialect Coach, Roles, Far Away

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else.

  Emma Stone

  Wall, Fall, Overthinking

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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• Human beings have a bunch of different dimensions, so even if you're playing someone who you think maybe the audience might not like, might not be going for, you still have to give them the dimensions to make them a real human, otherwise there's no point.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Real, Thinking, Giving

  Source: dailydead.com

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• It's almost jarring when you go to play a different character, after playing someone for so long. I love it!

  Bridget Regan

  Character, Play, Long

  "Bridget Regan Talks BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Joining the Show, and Her Favorite Moments to Shoot". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'Horror is a bit passe so this is Dark Fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. So that's why I say I'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'It doesn't read like what I think of as a fantasy'. In that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. Or there is more to it than you think.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dark, Thinking, Games

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• I've never worn incredible clothes - I'm not used to playing someone so put together and fashionable.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Clothes, Together, Incredibles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

  Holland Taylor

  Doe, Want, Skates

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• I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Mean, Responsibility, Men

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 12, 2002.

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