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I have played innocent characters that are inherently me, but I have a sensual side, too.
Aditi Rao Hydari
Me
Innocent
Too
Side
Characters
Sensual
Inherently
Played
I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.
Adrian McKinty
Funny
Teacher
Saying
Construction
Gone
Down
Guard
Funny Things
Meeting
Characters
Jobs
Security
Postman
Eccentric
Had
New
Wrote
Always
Were
Lot
Did
York
New York
Which
Plan
Worker
Many
Things
Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.
Adrian McKinty
Will
Heroic
Unless
Embarrass
Characters
Writers
Attempt
Generally
Institution
Like
Make
Because
Educated
Go
Truly
Mobility
Privately
Efforts
Lack
Social
Themselves
Then
Lower
Working
England
Who
At 'OITNB,' we really work to keep to the formula that's made this show so popular with everyone who watches it, which is to have really good characters and really interesting stories.
Adrienne C. Moore
Work
Good
Made
Everyone
Characters
Stories
Which
Interesting
Formula
Interesting Stories
Really
Show
Who
Popular
Keep
Watches
I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.
Aidan Gillen
Hope
Good
Me
You
People
Job
Down
Minds
Okay
Characters
Tricky
Devious
Know
Obviously
Pin
Cunning
Get
Places
Hard
Who
Ever
Enigmatic
Play
Played
I like to play characters that have an inner confidence about them that maybe you wouldn't expect them to have and that they aren't afraid to unleash occasionally.
Aidy Bryant
You
Confidence
Unleash
Characters
About
Like
Occasionally
Expect
Maybe
Afraid
Them
Play
Inner
I'm playing my first urban character in 'Thirudan Police.' It's an important film because I'll be breaking the stereotype that I'm only fit for rural characters with this role.
Aishwarya Rajesh
Character
Police
First
Important
Characters
Rural
Only
Stereotype
Because
Fit
Role
Breaking
Urban
Film
Playing
Television has embraced so much in terms of storytelling and in terms of a wide array of characters conveying stories from different points of view.
Aja Naomi King
Television
Characters
Embraced
Points
Terms
Array
Different
Stories
Storytelling
Conveying
Much
View
Wide
Designing characters for 'Dragon Quest' is fun but difficult work.
Akira Toriyama
Work
Difficult
Characters
Quest
Fun
Designing
Dragon
I'm personally not terribly interested in designing wholesome characters, so I don't have many variations to offer.
Akira Toriyama
Characters
Variations
Terribly
Offer
Interested
Personally
Many
Wholesome
Designing
Do you remember 'Super Saiyan 3?' I forgot about it, and I thought that was 'Super Saiyan 2,' even though I created those characters.
Akira Toriyama
You
Remember
Thought
Those
Though
Characters
Super
About
Forgot
Created
Even
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
Al Pacino
Humanity
Opportunity
Will
Believe
Characters
Tried
Something
Shakespeare
More
Take
Writes
Because
Always
Often
Really
Should
Express
Film
'Agent Mom' is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as 'Agent Mom.'
Alaina Huffman
Love
Myself
Mom
Me
Opportunity
Fans
Incredible
Characters
See
Cast
Perfect
Absolutely
Take
Develop
Yes
Stories
Agent
Act
Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.
Alain de Botton
People
Characters
Admit
Adult
Course
Real
Real People
Creations
Among
I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.
Alain de Botton
Love
Characters
Ideas
Where
Happens
Interest
Much
Novels
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater.
Alan Alda
Love
Words
Argument
Stage
Characters
About
More
Through
Tension
Between
Than
Theater
Themselves
Used
Express
Images
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
Alan Dean Foster
Life
Politics
Hope
Art
Me
You
People
Better
Become
Understanding
Differences
Living
Considerably
Characters
Would
Insight
Given
More
Only
Gives
Better Understanding
Greater
How
Affect
Cultural
Personalities
Rounded
Deeper
Travels
Wider
What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.
Alan Furst
Me
Learning
Book
Pleasurable
Characters
About
Lead
Like
Most
Because
Repeat
Discovered
Things
The way I work: I pick a country. I learn the political history - I mean I really learn it; I read until it sinks in. Once I read the political history, I can project and find the clandestine history. And then I people it with the characters.
Alan Furst
Work
History
People
Political
Country
Project
Once
Way
Characters
Find
Pick
Until
Learn
Read
Political History
Mean
Then
Really
My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.
Alan Moore
Films
Way
Characters
About
Point
Main
Like
Particularly
Comic
Modern
Endlessly
Essentially
Just
Where
Process
Central
Worked
Apparent
Adaptation
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
Alan Rickman
Good
Journey
You
Writing
Word
Characters
Good Writing
Suppose
Overused
Any
Interesting
Interesting Characters
I have few other characters to relate to other than myself. I have enough of a body of work now that the paternal side of Alan Thicke gets a lot of play. I do get a lot of calls to play dads.
Alan Thicke
Work
Myself
Few
Other
Enough
Relate
Side
Characters
Calls
Lot
Than
Get
Paternal
Gets
Body
Dads
Now
Play
Alan
It was a different job in that, because it's a 'Star Wars' movie and I'm a droid in a 'Star Wars' movie, people have a reverence for those characters that have come before me.
Alan Tudyk
Me
People
Job
Before
Those
Characters
Come
Because
Reverence
Different
Movie
Wars
Star
Star Wars
We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an A story, a B story, and a C story just about every episode. So by the middle of that show's run, we always had three stories, and it worked really well.
Alan Yang
Three
Every
Characters
Kind
Run
About
Parks
Had
Well
Because
Always
Got
Were
Just
Middle
Stories
Story
Rhythm
Worked
Really
Episode
Show
Many
The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time for me to realise how the genre worked. There were about 20 characters on the first page, and I wasn't used to this. I started to enjoy it when I saw that was how crime books worked.
Alastair Reynolds
Time
Me
Book
Crime
First
Enjoy
Think
Took
Books
Saw
Characters
Some
About
Genre
Read
First Time
How
Were
Been
May
Realise
Worked
Page
Used
Novel
Started
One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to a blackboard and start explaining how this faster-than-light drive works, or something like that. We never really have those conversations in real life. That's not part of the way we interact as human beings.
Alastair Reynolds
Life
You
Science
Drive
Real Life
Way
Those
Dangers
Characters
Bad
Something
Scenes
Never
Part
Like
Particularly
Science Fiction
How
Real
Human
Interact
Where
Fiction
Human Beings
Conversations
Explaining
Turn
Really
Works
Beings
Start
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