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I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.
Emilia Fox
Sets
Teens
Visiting
Characters
Until
Unusual
Normal
Surrounded
Upbringing
Child
Being
Realise
Film
Actor
Film Sets
Two
I never went to school wanting to play cute characters or girly characters.
Emily Beecham
School
Cute
Characters
Girly
Never
Wanting
Play
I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
Emily Blunt
Conflict
Think
Way
Drawn
Complexity
Characters
Some
Duress
Going
Who
I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.
Emily Browning
Thoughts
Lost
Own
Believe
Living
Think
Other
Everything
Characters
Constantly
My Own
Fact
Daydreamer
Massive
Make
Sort
Make-Believe
Within
Escape
Maybe
Fantasies
Personally
Before I was a mother, when I played characters that were mothers, I used my imagination, of course.
Emily Deschanel
Mother
Before
Imagination
Characters
Course
Mothers
Were
Used
Played
I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.
Emily Giffin
Path
Challenge
Enjoy
Characters
Destructive
Find
More
Perfect
Spite
Unsympathetic
Readers
Making
Than
Interesting
Them
Flawed
Much
Root
Choices
Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.
Emily Osment
Me
Reality
Own
Characters
Would
Would-Be
Someone
Like
Lot
Off
Want
Experiences
Turning
Actor
Play
Bring
Pull
What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.
Emily Ratajkowski
Women
Money
Spend
Characters
See
Per
Three-Dimensional
Dumb
Women Are
Where
Want
Cent
Movies
Population
Portrayed
I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.
Emily Ratajkowski
You
Women
Control
Think
Changing
Characters
One-Dimensional
See
More
More And More
Directors
Writers
Taking
Female
Female Characters
Male
Lot
Hollywood
Really
I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.
Emily Rios
Dark
Comedy
Humor
Top
Characters
Over
Over-The-Top
Like
Sort
Dry
Very
Subtlety
Based
Things
I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.
Emma Donoghue
Love
Broad
Characters
Cast
Contain
Queer
Including
Novels
Penelope Fitzgerald never fails to surprise: her language is clever and elegant, her settings are unusual, her characters are unpredictable, and I am always caught out by a line or moment which makes me laugh out loud.
Emma Healey
Me
Language
Clever
Settings
Laugh
Out
Characters
Unpredictable
Never
Fails
Unusual
Makes
Always
Am
Caught
Line
Surprise
Loud
Fitzgerald
Which
Moment
Elegant
Her
I love gritty drama. I'm passionate about films and drama that make you think - hard-hitting, gravelly characters.
Emma Rigby
Love
You
Gritty
Think
Films
Drama
Characters
About
Make
Passionate
There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.
Emmanuelle Beart
Interior
Films
Characters
Windows
About
Rather
Lot
Than
Person
Where
Play
Exterior
For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.
Emmanuelle Beart
Success
Truth
Me
Woman
Tell
Characters
Pretty
About
Pretty Woman
Something
Feel
Being
Us
Who
Career
I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.
Emmanuelle Beart
Life
Me
Women
Strong
Remember
Old
Made
My Life
Think
Films
Meet
Characters
See
Part
Like
Impressions
Friends
Them
Who
Played
I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.
Emory Cohen
Character
Me
Happy
People
Fear
Sense
Pain
Down
Characters
Something
Driven
Like
Most
Interests
Deep
Deep Down
Play
I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.
Emraan Hashmi
Work
Me
Characters
Never
Feel
Passive
Should
Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.
Eric Allin Cornell
Travel
Learning
Language
Lesson
Characters
Thousands
Had
Written
Perhaps
Most
Learned
Provided
Experiences
Chinese
Interesting
Really
Useful
Many
Proficiency
I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.
Eric Bana
Control
Situation
Think
Characters
Uncontrollable
Attracted
Am
Who
I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
Eric Holder
Work
Justice
People
States
Characters
Without
Department
Department Of Justice
Any
Going
Who
United
United States
Basis
As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
Eric Jerome Dickey
Myself
Challenge
Tell
Characters
Tackle
Writer
Issues
Same
Same Story
Different
Story
Different Characters
I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.
Eric Jerome Dickey
Good
People
Words
World
Light
Illusion
Random
Live
Think
Imagination
Strictly
Characters
See
Good Story
Write
Real
Trying
Just
Rewriting
Story
Which
Creates
Choosing
Bringing
The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.
Eric Roberts
Me
Mind
Bit
Ease
Out
Characters
Inside
Inside-Out
Point
Outside
Part
Put
Built
Subjective
Very
Little
Explanation
Paul
Little Bit
Your
Describing
I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.
Eric Stonestreet
Hate
People
Remember
Characters
Like
Parts
Roles
Just
Want
Dislike
Create
Actor
Play
The one thing that I really love about 'Smallville,' people are excited, and they love the characters. I can see their point of view.
Erica Durance
Love
People
Characters
One Thing
See
About
Point
Point Of View
Excited
The One Thing
Really
View
Thing
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