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I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth' or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn't get any of that.
Nick Hornby
Character
You
Language
Whatever
Macbeth
Tell
Hated
About
Shakespeare
Students
Had
Understand
Get
Any
Going
Order
Story
Them
Teaching
Usually, one of the first things I think about when I'm developing a character is what they're wearing. I mean, it sounds very cheesy and very actor-y, but it really does help me figure it out.
Nick Kroll
Character
Me
First
Think
Out
Wearing
About
Developing
Cheesy
First Things
Does
Sounds
Very
Mean
Really
Figure
Help
Things
I think a lot of podcasts have a lot of amazing character work. Seth Morris does this amazing character, Boch Duco, which I think is one of the funniest, most well-realized characters that I've ever seen or heard.
Nick Kroll
Work
Character
Amazing
Seen
Think
Characters
Morris
Most
Does
Heard
Lot
Which
Ever
Funniest
Even though 'Kroll' was a crazy sketch show with big characters, one of the things I'm proud of about the show is that the characters were always kind of coming from an emotionally honest place for whoever I thought that character was.
Nick Kroll
Character
Crazy
Thought
Big
Though
Characters
Kind
One Of The Things
About
Emotionally
Always
Proud
Coming
Were
Place
Sketch
Show
Whoever
Even
Things
Honest
From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations, at least one of which is in direct conflict with another.
Nick Petrie
Character
Conflict
Simple
Three
Single
Complex
At Least One
Characters
Purely
Direct
More
Another
Least
Motivation
Motivations
Craft
Which
While
Standpoint
Two
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
Nicki Minaj
Character
Song
Opportunity
Rap
Characters
Head
Look
Auditioning
Different
Different Characters
Act
Full
Each
It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that's this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.
Nico Santos
Character
Gay
Television
Guy
Still
Brain
Get
American
American Television
Filipino
Actually
Portray
A lot of people know me from my character that I play on 'Superstore,' Mateo, and I'm not interested in playing straight roles. I'm all about playing queer roles.
Nico Santos
Character
Me
People
About
Know
Queer
Lot
Roles
Not Interested
Interested
Straight
Play
Playing
My role is Katara: in 'The Last Airbender,' I'm a water bender from the southern water tribe, and my character is really strong but also loving.
Nicola Peltz
Character
Water
Strong
Tribe
Also
Southern
Role
Loving
Really
Last
I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.
Nicolas Cage
Home
Character
Me
Training
Whatever
Those
Out
Characters
Running
Brought
Could
Had
Without
Lot
Hit
Survive
Going
Being
Them
To Survive
Meant
Acting
Ground
Professional
Lived
I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.
Nicole Holofcener
Character
Mind
Once
About
Casting
Write
Forget
Then
Certain
Who
Actor
Start
I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.
Nicole Kidman
Character
School
Made
Angel
Sheep
Baby
Mary
Up
Role
Get
Nativity
Next
Who
Sat
Play
Jesus
I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
Nicole Kidman
Character
Try
Power
Think
Changed
Way
Stay
More
More Power
Days
Been
Very
Role
Getting
Just
Orchestrated
Which
Decisions
Much
Actor
Away
Things
The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist is also a classic character.
Niels Arden Oplev
Character
Girl
Journalist
Plot
Classic
Investigating
Like
Also
Tattoo
Agatha Christie
Thing
Dragon
Humanity will... be confronted with dangers of unprecedented character unless, in due time, measures can be taken to forestall a disastrous competition in such formidable armaments and to establish an international control of the manufacture and use of the powerful materials.
Niels Bohr
Time
Character
Humanity
Competition
Will
Control
Unless
Dangers
Unprecedented
Taken
Powerful
Disastrous
Due
Materials
Establish
Formidable
Confronted
Use
Manufacture
Measures
International
Indian audiences these days aren't really interested in watching a character on screen evolve. They don't want to see a young girl evolve into being a partner and enter motherhood - they are only really concerned about the story. As long as the story is getting interesting with every passing episode, they want more.
Nikita Dutta
Character
Girl
Long
Partner
Motherhood
Young
Every
On-Screen
Enter
Evolve
Indian
See
About
More
Only
Days
Concerned
Audiences
Passing
Getting
Screen
Being
Want
Young Girl
Story
Interested
Interesting
Really
Episode
Watching
In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.
Nikki Grimes
Life
Character
Dark
Free
Own
Not Talking
Out
About
My Own
Write
Talking
Fiction
Speaking
What's great about 'Game of Thrones' is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story told by one character and you'll go, 'Oh my God, horrible', and then maybe the season after you have the same story told but from the person you thought was just the most horrible, vile creature.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
God
Time
Great
Character
You
Game
Change
Vile
Perspective
Will
Thought
Horrible
About
POV
Most
Go
Person
Same
Same Story
Maybe
Oh
Just
Oh My God
After
Story
Then
Game Of Thrones
Creature
Season
I never approach a character from a negative place.
Nina Arianda
Character
Negative
Approach
Never
Place
I really want to be associated with great projects and character driven projects and films. I have to feed my soul, and keep feeling like an artist and keep being challenged.
Nina Dobrev
Great
Character
Soul
Feeling
Films
Projects
My Soul
Driven
Feed
Like
Artist
Being
Want
Really
Keep
Challenged
Associated
I am not bothered about if my role in a film is small or big. Because if the character I am offered is sensible, I would do it even if it is small.
Nithya Menen
Character
Big
Would
About
Small
Bothered
Because
Am
Offered
Role
Sensible
Even
Film
I don't like this concept of second role, small role. It is a story, at the end of the day. If I am suitable for a character, I am glad to reflect that through my choice of films.
Nithya Menen
Day
Character
End Of The Day
Reflect
Films
Suitable
Small
Through
Glad
Like
Concept
Am
End
Role
Story
Choice
Second
I have been doing a lot of romantic movies, so such roles don't excite me much now. I would like to play an out-and-out, really cruel villain once. My character in 'Da Thadiya' had such a streak, but I want a full length villainous role. It is a different kind of excitement.
Nivin Pauly
Character
Me
Once
Kind
Would
Had
Cruel
Excite
Excitement
Like
Doing
Been
Lot
Role
Roles
Different
Want
Romantic
Movies
Length
Different Kind
Much
Really
Full
Villain
Now
Streak
Play
I don't do many films at the same time, as I don't like to switch between characters. At a given point, I would like to get into the skin of whatever character I am playing.
Nivin Pauly
Time
Character
Whatever
Skin
Films
Characters
Would
Given
Point
Between
Like
Am
Get
Same
Same Time
Many
Switch
Playing
I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.
Noah Hathaway
Character
Creative
Type
Would
Totally
Could
Like
Any
There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.
Noah Hawley
Good
Character
You
Other
Bad
Moral
Bad Character
See
Brothers
End
Very
Where
Movies
Fargo
Good Character
Coen
Spectrum
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