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I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.
Len Wein
Crazy
Hate
Characters
Point
Neurotic
Beyond
Certain
Certain Point
I need a distance to my characters when I write.
Lena Andersson
Distance
Characters
Write
Need
Queer black characters have been the sidekick for long enough. It's time for us to finally take the lead.
Lena Waithe
Time
Black
Long
Enough
Sidekick
Finally
Characters
Take
Lead
Queer
Been
Us
When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.
Lennie James
Me
Characters
Voices
Like
Look
Accent
American
American Accent
Different
Who
Play
Playing
Frank's really different from everything I've done. Maybe the one thing that's the same, and the thing that I tend to do, is that I think I can create an intimacy with the characters, like a sense of presence with the people in the film, and that's what I tried to do in 'Room' as well.
Lenny Abrahamson
People
Sense
Think
Everything
Intimacy
Frank
Characters
One Thing
Tried
Tend
Like
Well
Same
Done
Maybe
Different
The One Thing
Room
Create
Really
Film
Thing
Presence
I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people.
Leo McCarey
People
Clouds
World
Walk
Others
Bit
Characters
Photograph
Distress
Only
Tale
Like
Know
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Ugliness
Want
Formula
Little
Little Bit
I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Change
Problems
Believe
Way
Characters
Solving
Looked
Climate
Climate Change
Were
Same
Often
Fiction
Fictitious
Mankind
Play
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Me
Characters
Gives
Emotionally
Really
Act
Ill
Portraying
Chance
The characters, to me, in 'Homeland' are not one note in any way.
Lesli Linka Glatter
Me
Way
Characters
Any
Note
Homeland
I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.
Leslie Moonves
Work
Strength
Creative
People
Dark
Unhappy
Nervous
Action
Dilemma
Respond
Out
Characters
Weakness
Lead
Part
Like
Understand
Audiences
American
American Audiences
Any
Story
Work Out
Episodes
Creative People
Why
Nowhere
Chance
'The Walking Dead' never wants you to get too comfortable with characters and cast members. I think about the time you feel fairly secure with your appreciation of a character is about the time the show will gut-punch you.
Lew Temple
Time
Character
You
Appreciation
Will
Think
Too
Secure
Members
Characters
About
Cast
Cast Members
Never
Feel
Dead
Fairly
Comfortable
Walking
Walking Dead
Get
Wants
Your
Show
I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.
Lewis Thomas
Life
Family
You
Additional
Characters
Something
Cast
Had
Soon
New
Sure
Pass
Friends
Going
Just
Rewarding
Rewarding Experiences
Want
Experiences
Loving
Your
Reincarnated
Need
There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.
Liam Neeson
Me
Maturity
Opportunities
Old
Fighting
Drama
Bit
Those
Characters
Running
Seems
Guys
More
Lead
Like
Likely
Also
Because
Doing
Years
Little
Acquire
Depth
Require
Television is a lot more fast-paced, where with films, you really have the ability to get to know your characters. When I was doing guest star roles, I was only one, like, one episode of a thirty minute to an hour show, so you don't really have time to get to know my characters.
Liana Liberato
Time
You
Films
Thirty
Guest
Guest Star
Television
Characters
Ability
Minute
More
Only
Hour
Like
Know
Doing
Lot
Get
Roles
Where
Really
Episode
Your
Show
Star
Fast-Paced
Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.
Liev Schreiber
Value
Degree
Think
Beneath
Press
Characters
Staying
Well
Because
Been
Huge
Target
Certain
Radar
Actor
Ever
Play
I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.
Liev Schreiber
Think
Characters
More
Always
Interesting
I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way.
Liev Schreiber
Time
Evil
First
Think
Way
Characters
Torn
Could
Had
Instinct
First Time
Theater
Public
Them
Realized
Much
Who
Chagrin
Describe
Played
I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.
Lili Taylor
Edge
Whatever
Guess
Characters
Destructive
Find
More
Female
Lot
Roles
May
Uninteresting
Play
Spectrum
Damaged
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
Lily Tomlin
Type
Way
Characters
Put
Another
Another Way
Just
Creating
Use
Express
I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented in a way that's even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can point at and say, 'That's what my life experience looks like' - I can't think of any off the top of my head besides Jimmy Smits in 'Mi Familia.'
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Life
You
Struggle
Experience
Black
My Life
Think
Jimmy
Top
Way
Say
Latino
Tell
Characters
Besides
Life Experience
Point
Head
Between
Like
Looks
Off
Close
Same
Any
Even
Actor
Differentiate
Amount
Honest
There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
You
Treat
Joke
Hilarious
Lyric
Musical
Characters
Rapping
More
Hip-Hop
Been
Lots
Than
Often
Form
Theater
Pack
Used
Uses
Ton
We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Politics
Characters
Had
Like
Xenophobia
Trade
Trump
Forever
American
American Politics
Who
Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
Lina Wertmuller
Attitude
Women
Extremist
Characters
Some
Most
Feminists
Very
Film
Enlightened
There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: 'Look at us! Our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual!'
Lionel Shriver
Success
Good
News
Character
Gay
Rights
Good News
Lesbian
Every
Drama
Gay Rights
Our
Bit
Sight
Latter
Characters
Rights Movement
Point
Had
Look
Couple
Hip
Still
Sitcom
Movement
Grew
Tiresome
Which
Us
Show
Suddenly
Homosexual
Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show.
Lisa Edelstein
Character
You
Change
Become
Think
Characters
More
Well
Revealed
Really
Show
I have always wanted to do a feature film that brings the world of Lisa Frank to life. We have so much backstory on our characters, and they have been alive in my imagination since the beginning.
Lisa Frank
Life
World
Beginning
Imagination
Our
Frank
Alive
Characters
Feature
Feature Film
Since
Always
Been
Wanted
Much
Film
Brings
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