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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
Cornelia Funke
Dog
Guinea
Guinea Pig
Horses
Hairy
Pig
Very
Iceland
Two
I will try to write books until I drop dead.
Cornelia Funke
Try
Will
Drop
Books
Write
Until
Dead
Yes, I always imagined living in other places.
Cornelia Funke
Living
Other
Always
Yes
Places
Imagined
There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.
Cress Williams
Life
Nature
You
People
Small
Small Town
Idea
Town
Like
Knowing
Likes
Dislikes
Really
Aspects
Your
Routine
I didn't really know of 'Black Lightning' until I got the script and started to investigate - it wasn't a hero that I grew up with. So I didn't know if his powers were natural or if it was the suit, but those things are, for me, very important. I really like the idea that his powers are his - that whether he has the suit or not, he has them.
Cress Williams
Me
Natural
Hero
Black
Important
Those
Investigate
He
Idea
Lightning
Like
Know
Until
Powers
Got
Were
His
Up
Very
Grew
Whether
Script
Them
Really
Things
Started
Suit
What's great about acting is that there's never a moment when you're like, 'OK, I got this, I understand this.' You're portraying life, and it's a craft that only gets better with time - kind of like playing a musical instrument: the more you get to play it, the better you are.
Cress Williams
Life
Time
Great
You
Better
Musical
Musical Instrument
OK
Kind
About
More
Only
Never
Like
Instrument
Understand
Got
Get
Craft
Gets
Acting
Moment
Play
Portraying
Playing
As a kid, you just like anything fanciful that you're into, but as an adult, I really love that kind of place where the super hero mythos meets life, where it has that human story; that's what I think I was really drawn to when I started getting into the X-Men.
Cress Williams
Life
Love
You
Hero
Think
Meets
Kid
Drawn
Kind
Super
Adult
Like
Getting
Human
Just
Where
Anything
Story
Place
Fanciful
Really
Started
Back in the day as a kid, I was really drawn to the Hulk because it just felt so human and was probably one of the first stories that I felt emotionally invested in and not just thought it was really cool. You really feel for that person and put yourself in that situation.
Cress Williams
Day
You
Yourself
Thought
First
Situation
Back
Kid
Drawn
Invested
Emotionally
Put
Feel
Because
Felt
Person
Hulk
Human
Just
Stories
Really
Cool
When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.
Cress Williams
Buy
Myself
Too
Way
Collecting
Obsessive
Comics
Get
Stop
Which
Little
Many
Why
Things
Start
Buying
My first job was television. I got to where I wanted to go, but through a little bit of a detour. When I first started working in film and television, I hated myself - I didn't like what I was doing at all. All I could think of was, 'I'm overacting. Be smaller.' I started to do that, but that was not fun. I felt confined doing film and TV.
Cress Williams
Myself
Job
First
Think
Bit
Television
TV
Hated
Detour
Could
Through
Smaller
Like
First Job
Felt
Got
Doing
Go
Confined
Where
Wanted
Little
Little Bit
Working
Fun
Film
Film And Television
Film And TV
Started
A lot of times, people believe that until you're a certain-list actor, you say yes to everything; you're not allowed to say no. But early on, something went off in me, and if something didn't ring true for a myriad of reasons, I would say no and was fortunate enough to have people around me that were OK with that.
Cress Williams
Me
You
People
Believe
Enough
Everything
Say
OK
Would
Ring
Something
Myriad
Allowed
True
Until
Around
Were
Lot
Off
Yes
Times
Times People
Fortunate
Reasons
Actor
Early
I come from theater, so I'm used to the hierarchy of an actor is just on the ladder, and above that is a director, and above that is a producer, and above that is a writer. But on a television show or film, the whole call sheet thing and being No. 1 on a call sheet, people look to you and almost expect you to exercise this power for good or bad.
Cress Williams
Good
You
Director
People
Power
Ladder
Television
Television Show
Hierarchy
Bad
Above
Writer
Almost
Come
Look
Call
Sheet
Exercise
Expect
Just
Being
Theater
Producer
Used
Show
Whole
Film
Actor
Thing
I realized that being that No. 1 on the call sheet sets the tone. That knowledge, it's important to me that everyone - not just actors, not just myself, but everyone - have a workplace that they enjoy, where they feel respected, that they have creative input, and that they feel is a place that they're excited to go to work.
Cress Williams
Work
Myself
Me
Knowledge
Creative
Important
Enjoy
Sets
Everyone
Respected
Input
Excited
Feel
Call
Sheet
Go
Just
Being
Where
Place
Realized
Creative Input
Workplace
Actor
Tone
When you're playing a superhero, you're almost playing two different people. I separate when I'm playing Jefferson Pierce and the days when I'm playing Black Lightning.
Cress Williams
You
People
Black
Superhero
Almost
Lightning
Days
Pierce
Different
Separate
Different People
Jefferson
Playing
Two
On 'Black Lightning' I have a stunt double who's a lot younger than me. The fighting style on the show is heavily martial arts-based, and I know boxing; I don't know martial arts. I also have a really bad knee, and he's been doing martial arts since he was 6 years old, so I'm not thinking, 'No, I can do that! I can make that look cool!'
Cress Williams
Me
Old
Black
Style
Fighting
Thinking
Bad
Martial
Martial Arts
Knee
He
Lightning
Since
Know
Look
Stunt
Also
Make
Boxing
Doing
Been
Years
Lot
Than
Arts
Double
Younger
Really
Show
Cool
I grew up watching television. I'm a television addict. I had all these heroes, but they didn't look like me.
Cress Williams
Me
Heroes
Addict
Television
Had
Like
Look
Up
Grew
Watching
Watching Television
As an actor, the flaws are the things that are juicy to play. If the character is perfect, it can be a little boring.
Cress Williams
Character
Boring
Perfect
Juicy
Little
Flaws
Actor
Play
Things
A friend of mine kind of revealed to me that idea that there has been countless Supermen and Batman. But I'm the first person to play Black Lightning. It's exciting to originate a character.
Cress Williams
Character
Me
Black
First
Batman
Mine
Has-Been
Kind
Exciting
Idea
Countless
Lightning
Revealed
First-Person
Been
Friend
Person
Originate
Play
Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.
Curt Siodmak
War
Good
Good Things
Country
Sit
Few
Every
Back
Our
Everywhere
Knees
Feeds
Over
Hands
Just
Fork
While
Whip
Us
Working
Conquer
Things
Slaves
It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.
Curt Siodmak
Good
You
Our
See
New
Arrested
New Order
Friends
Order
Place
Your
You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.
Curt Siodmak
You
People
Better
Some People
Find
Some
Superstition
Contagious
Get
Them
Thing
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.
Daniel Bruhl
Hero
Legend
Living
Everybody
Kid
TV
He
Knew
Him
Knows
Because
Still
Very
Commenting
Germany
Formula
Formula One
Who
Present
Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.
Daniel Bruhl
Eating
Weekend
Main
Most
Around
Revolves
Hobby
Now
I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
Daniel Bruhl
Time
Fool
Enjoy
Think
Out
About
Head
Pictures
House
Terrace
Around
Passing
Up
Get
Hanging
We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
Daniel Bruhl
Good
Car
Good Qualities
Constructing
Know
Qualities
Lot
Germans
Should
Funniest
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
Daniel Bruhl
Hero
Legend
Living
Everybody
Kid
He
Knew
Him
Knows
Germany
Who
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