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When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.
Christian Bale
Character
People
Films
Bad
Between
Message
Itself
Often
Central
Separate
Film
Differentiate
Things
Two
I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?
Christian Bale
Character
You
Wonderful
Seen
Magic
Having
Only
Idea
Like
Know
How
How Many Times
Times
Movie
Movies
Who
Many
Element
Actor
There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.
Christian Bale
Myself
Character
Me
Stars
Ourselves
Characters
Throughout
Beyond
Without
Reveal
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Goal
Very
Manage
Often
Being
Where
Movie
Anything
Movie Stars
Movies
Then
Act
Noticing
Cool
Showing
Whole
Belief
Actor
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.
Christian Louboutin
Character
Wealth
Men
Shoes
About
Elegance
Inner
Playing
Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.
Christian Louboutin
Love
Character
Grace
Beauty
Shoes
Cinderella
Only
Also
Fairytale
Iconic
A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.
Christian Louboutin
Character
Heart
People
Thought
Indication
Gives
Like
House
Houses
Arrangement
Disconnect
Lines
Very
Cannot
Curves
Straight
Much
Portrait
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
Christian Louboutin
Character
Happy
Women
Wealth
Men
Shoes
Wear
About
Women Are
Painful
Elegance
Why
Inner
Playing
The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.
Christian Slater
Life
Time
Character
Me
Mind
Made
My Life
Stage
Frame
Has-Been
Exactly
Had
Were
Been
Movies
Certain
Each
Play
Right
I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.
Christina Ricci
Work
Best
Great
Character
You
Writing
Consistency
Thought
Looking
Live
Months
TV
Would
Would-Be
Some
Directors
Feel
Talent
Like
Also
Always
Been
Years
Provides
Interesting
Really
Acting
Now
Right
Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.
Christine Baranski
Character
Better
Mine
Worse
Gets
Getting
Getting Better
Just
Your
Kept
Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.
Christine Pelosi
Politics
Leadership
Character
You
Maturity
Opportunity
Value
Reflect
Rally
Add
Give
Similar
Both
Talent
Make
Venture
Calls
Make Up
Up
Sitting
Candidate
Baseball
Assess
Technical
I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh this character is going to be the woman I wanted to be.'
Christine and the Queens
Myself
Character
Woman
Stage
Think
Finally
Say
Excuse
Going
Oh
Wanted
Used
Who
Christine
Needed
There are lots of ways to be a feminist. Beyonce, for example, is a beautiful example of feminine sensuality and is still really powerful. My character and my inner essence is more like an awkward 15-year-old boy, like a teenager backstage, like, 'Yeah, what's up?' That's what I'm trying to channel.
Christine and the Queens
Beautiful
Character
Example
Channel
Teenager
Ways
Backstage
More
Powerful
Like
Beyonce
For Example
Boy
Feminine
Still
Yeah
Feminist
Lots
Up
Trying
Essence
Sensuality
Really
Awkward
Inner
Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created a character that could be daring for me.
Christine and the Queens
Time
Character
Me
Tired
Free
Daring
Could
Being
Wanting
Break
Created
Shrinking
Christine
The character I've created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don't take too much space. All those things that didn't mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.
Christine and the Queens
Time
Character
Me
Space
Too Much
Girl
First
Too
Secret
Those
Pretty
Take
Attempt
Mainly
Like
Around
Polite
Escape
Just
Anything
Decided
Mean
Them
Turn
Much
Created
Things
Christine
Christine, as a stage character, is just a way for me to be more daring, to be more out of the box, to be stronger and to use everything that could weigh me down like a fuel, like an energy.
Christine and the Queens
Character
Me
Stronger
Stage
Energy
Down
Everything
Way
Out
Daring
More
Could
Weigh
Like
Box
Just
Fuel
Use
Christine
You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.
Christoph Waltz
Character
You
Beard
Tell
Characters
Kind
About
Something
Could
Self-Confidence
Know
Talk
Years
Years Ago
Timid
Just
Refuse
Grey
Little
Us
Asked
Your
Now
Play
The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.
Christoph Waltz
Character
Seen
Important
Stage
Philosophy
Way
Out
Find
Vanish
About
Onto
Never
Talked
Person
Get
Behind
Screen
Again
Translate
Page
Actor
Actually
When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing.
Christopher Guest
Character
You
People
Schizophrenic
Out
Characters
Spinal
Spinal Tap
See
Concerts
Been
Tap
Very
Walking
Done
Movie
Happened
Public
Then
Appear
Play
Thing
I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
Christopher Lambert
Character
Pure
Action
Find
About
More
Always
Than
Trying
Sensitive
Movies
Action Movies
Even
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Christopher Lasch
Character
Age
Own
Every
Exaggerated
Structure
Develops
Underlying
Pathology
Form
Which
Forms
Express
Peculiar
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.
Christopher Lee
Character
Change
World
Single
Consequences
Change The World
He
Know
Most
Concerned
Metal
Am
Handed
Don Quixote
Trying
Personal
Any
As Far As
Quixote
Fictional
Regardless
Far
I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.
Christopher Lee
Character
People
Remember
Matter
Will
Long
Seen
Must
Something
Parts
Got
Short
Screen
Where
After
Mean
Notice
Film
Play
Whether it's a very dramatic part or a comical role, I feel I need to create the same thing: a full-fledged, three-dimensional character that the audience can identify with.
Christopher Lloyd
Character
Same Thing
Dramatic
Three-Dimensional
Part
Feel
Identify
Audience
Very
Role
Same
Whether
Create
Thing
Need
When I come onto a show where I haven't met any actors, I try to zero in on the script and what's expected of the character I'm going to play and hopefully keep my focus on that, and friendships develop from that.
Christopher Lloyd
Character
Try
Focus
Met
Hopefully
Onto
Develop
Come
Friendships
Expected
Any
Going
Where
Script
Show
Keep
Actor
Play
Zero
One of our jobs as screenwriters is to never lose sight of the character.
Christopher Markus
Character
Lose
Our
Sight
Jobs
Never
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