Playing Someone Quotes - Page 2

• My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Hurt, Heart, Play

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• The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

  Rebecca Mader

  Character, Mean, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

  Aaron Tveit

  Choices, Actors, May

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Playing someone drum 'n' bass for the first time in 'Pass Out' - they're like, 'Oh my God, what is this?' I'm having a lot of fun and a good time showcasing the music.

  Tinie Tempah

  Fun, Bass, Firsts

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• As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.

  Claire Danes

  Real, Let It Go, Done

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

  Gary Oldman

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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• I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.

  Amy Weber

  Girl, Sweet, Opportunity

  "Amy Weber...bikini babe". AskMen interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Jobs, Water, Needs

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• I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring

  Francesca Annis

  Would Be, Boring, Imagine

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• I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

  Sean Bean

  Guy, Trying, Refreshing

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• When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Letting Go, Burden, Accurate

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 31, 2006.

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• I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

  Brett Davern

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• Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I find very interesting is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? How can his weight vary so much? Where does this rather beautiful voice come from?

  Toby Jones

  Beautiful, Light, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Voice, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Real, Roles, Littles

  "Exclusive InDepth InterView: Tammy Blanchard On HOW TO SUCCEED, THE BIG C, GYPSY, Judy Garland & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. May 19, 2012.

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• When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

  Oscar Isaac

  Character, Creating, Certain

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• I'm always interested in playing different people, in different situationsIt doesn't matter to me whether someone is in love with a man or a woman. I find the idea of love and romance interesting. I'm a sucker for it. I like playing someone who's falling in love because I like the sensation of it. People do extraordinary things when they're falling in love.

  Ewan McGregor

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Men

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• If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.

  Emma Thompson

  Real, Preparation, Messages

  "Emma Thompson Talks SAVING MR. BANKS, Her Preparation Process, Getting Input from Richard Sherman, Terrence Malick’s VOYAGE OF TIME, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 20, 2013.

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• When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Focus, Fans

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• Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Acting, Calm

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.

  Darby Stanchfield

  Difficult, Standpoint, Judged

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• David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Song, Stupid, Home

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