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I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists. It's a trait of human nature that I'm particularly in touch with. So I tend to project it onto my characters.
Andrea Barrett
Nature
Human Nature
Project
Characters
Touch
Tend
Onto
Writers
Obsessive
Most
Particularly
Am
Scientists
Friends
Hugely
Trait
Closest
Closest Friends
Human
Just
Who
Many
When my career started on daytime soaps, those characters usually didn't have much depth to them. The main goal was to memorize my lines in order to film efficiently the next day. But with 'Jane The Virgin,' the writing is strong, and everything is intentional.
Andrea Navedo
Day
Writing
Strong
Everything
Those
Characters
Memorize
Main
Daytime
Goal
Lines
Efficiently
Intentional
Order
Soaps
Jane
Them
Depth
Much
Next
Film
Started
Career
I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst.
Andrea Riseborough
Work
Woman
Women
People
Wonderful
Incredibly
Type
Worst
Characters
Sliver
Worthy
Chaste
Emote
Writers
Make
Because
Around
Always
Real
Truly
Lot
Real People
Person
Often
Oftentimes
Different
Which
Them
Really
Even
Different Type
Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so many different characters, and the wonderful thing about being in an all-girls school was I got to play them all, you know. So I got to play Mercutio and Oberon and Malvolio - it was great.
Andrea Riseborough
Great
Me
You
Wonderful
School
Every
Characters
About
Shakespeare
Know
Got
His
Off
Train
Wonderful Thing
Being
Different
Different Characters
Them
Many
Play
Thing
Started
Plays
For me, one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of serial reality TV is that characters can move freely along a spectrum of heroism and villainy.
Andrea Seigel
Beautiful
Me
Reality
Most Beautiful
Heroism
Characters
TV
Freely
Along
Most
Move
Rewarding
Reality TV
Aspects
Serial
Villainy
Spectrum
I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which I don't get to do in 'Primeval' at all.
Andrew-Lee Potts
Love
Reality
Way
Characters
Kind
Darker
Having
Having Fun
Stuff
Doing
Get
Which
Fun
Play
I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.
Andrew-Lee Potts
Family
Comedy
Enough
Characters
Darker
Been
Roles
Different
Different Roles
Many
Lucky
Shows
Play
There have always been two people jostling for control of my life, two totally opposite characters. The first one is super-confident, bulletproof, a showman, and an extrovert. He tries to make people laugh, messes about, gets into trouble, shrugs it off. The other character is withdrawn and reflective.
Andrew Flintoff
Life
Character
People
My Life
Trouble
First
Control
Other
Extrovert
Laugh
Characters
Tries
Totally
About
He
Withdrawn
First One
Make
Messes
Always
Opposite
Bulletproof
Been
Off
Reflective
Gets
Two
Two People
Yes, both 'Being Human' and 'Outlander' are known for their loyal fanbases. The beauty of both of those jobs was that the characters were very removed from me. So I've been lucky to get off scot-free, without any strange encounters. The wigs, blood, and strange onscreen faces/voices - they haven't found their way into my day-to-day life. Yet.
Andrew Gower
Life
Me
Strange
Beauty
Wigs
Way
Those
Characters
Jobs
Outlander
Both
Onscreen
Day-To-Day
Day-To-Day Life
Known
Without
Were
Been
Encounters
Off
Blood
Yes
Very
Get
Any
Human
Being
Being Human
Loyal
Lucky
Found
I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
Andrew Greeley
Me
Way
Say
Easily
Tell
Characters
Finish
Write
Take
Put
Over
Particularly
Doing
Just
Then
Novel
Third
It's very important that all the supporting characters feel like they've existed in the world, that they've had a history, and they'll go on to have a history within the scope of the story rather than just popping up and then disappearing.
Andrew Haigh
History
World
Important
Characters
Rather
Had
Disappearing
Feel
Supporting
Like
Within
Go
Scope
Existed
Up
Very
Than
Just
Story
Then
Popping
It's always important to try and get a real sense of the world around my characters. I especially think it helps actors.
Andrew Haigh
World
Try
Important
Sense
Think
Characters
Around
Always
Real
Get
Get A Real
Real Sense
Helps
Actor
Besides Spiderman and Batman, 'The Flash' has, hands down, the best villains. You could do a TV show about The Rogues, and there's enough depth and interest and oddly honor amongst those characters that I think people will watch that show.
Andrew Kreisberg
Best
You
People
Honor
Will
Down
Think
Enough
Batman
Those
Characters
Spiderman
TV
Besides
TV Show
About
Could
Oddly
Rogues
Hands
Flash
Interest
Depth
Show
Villains
Amongst
Watch
When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.
Andrew Rannells
Gay
Grace
Will
College
Kid
Television
Characters
Were
Lines
Up
Any
Story
Story Lines
Then
Recall
Hardly
Started
The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.
Andrew Scott
Characters
Kind
Admire
Through
Genres
Move
Different
Different Characters
Actor
I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.
Andy Daly
Love
Dark
Dark Side
Side
Characters
Nerdy
Point
Pushed
Either
Breaking
Then
Who
Play
The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest. There was just something about Martin Short in particular. I really related to him and hung on his every word and mannerism, so I started impersonating all of his characters as an 8th grader.
Andy Daly
Word
First
Live
Every
Christopher
Related
Guest
Hung
Characters
About
Martin
Something
Particular
Crystal
Him
His
Short
Just
Just Something
Interested
Really
Billy
Season
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Started
Night
I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.
Andy Serkis
Good
Day
Character
Me
End Of The Day
Action
Live
Those
Characters
See
Only
Good Story
Written
Performance
Between
End
Role
Just
Difference
Wants
Story
Scripts
Explore
Good Character
Who
Live Action
Capture
Actor
Playing
For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.
Andy Serkis
You
Soul
Heart
Characters
Performance
Like
Look
Got
Still
Method
Heart And Soul
Which
Fantastic
Themselves
Games
Film
Now
Actor
Necessarily
Portraying
I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'
Andy Serkis
Myself
Me
Human Being
Sometimes
Think
Easily
Characters
Moral
Moral Compass
Listen
Human
Being
Swayed
Growing
Compass
Play
Over the years, people have asked me, 'Do you think there should be a separate category for acting in the digital realm? Or hybrid sort of awards for digital characters?' and so on. And I've always really maintained that I don't believe so.
Andy Serkis
Me
You
People
Digital
Believe
Think
Characters
Hybrid
Maintained
Over
Category
Sort
Always
Years
Asked
Really
Realm
Separate
Should
Acting
Awards
The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.
Andy Serkis
Art
Me
Important
Transformation
Believe
Say
Further
Characters
Something
More
Through
Always
Important Thing
Very
Truthful
Away
Thing
I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.
Andy Serkis
Leadership
Key
Think
Ears
Characters
Able
Open
Caesar
Empathetic
Most
Times
Being
Successful
Your
Keep
Played
Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.
Andy Serkis
Time
Long
Characters
Having
Long Periods
Over
Periods
Lot
Done
Sustaining
Theater
Used
Love every role to be new, and I always like to bring a freshness to every character I play, but that comes down to the script. So, it's important that it's a good script with good, truthful characters and truthful subjects.
Aneurin Barnard
Love
Good
Character
Important
Down
Every
Characters
Good Script
New
Like
Always
Freshness
Subjects
Truthful
Role
Script
Play
Bring
Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
Ang Lee
Emotions
Characters
Purposes
Motivation
Serve
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