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That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.
Jeri Ryan
Character
Better
Perspective
More
Makes
Up
Screwed
Screwed-Up
Interesting
Actor
You know, 'Cheers,' you didn't have to leave the bar because what they were saying in the bar was important. 'All In The Family' is the same rule. On 'The Golden Girls' they didn't have to leave the table. And 'Friends' - the coffee shop. You can contain it if it's interesting.
Jerrod Carmichael
Saying
Family
You
Coffee
Girl
Important
Rule
Table
Contain
Know
Cheers
Because
Leave
Were
Friends
Same
Shop
Golden
Bar
Interesting
Comedians could do mindless things - and by mindless, I mean the easy jokes and things that you already agree with - but I find it more interesting, more of a reward, for people to feel something. I like to make a human connection, and that involves speaking emotionally, a bit more intellectually, or with a bit more moral complexity.
Jerrod Carmichael
You
Jokes
People
Reward
Mindless
Bit
Complexity
Moral
Easy
Find
Something
More
Could
Emotionally
Feel
Like
Comedians
Involves
Make
Intellectually
Human
Interesting
Mean
Speaking
Agree
Connection
Things
I ran for political office in the Hamptons once in a war I was having with the village. I came in, there were four people running, and I came in around third. It was over my food market - they arrested me. I just wanted to go for office because I thought it would be an interesting to do.
Jerry Della Femina
War
Food
Me
People
Political
Thought
Market
Ran
Once
Would
Would-Be
Running
Having
Over
Because
Around
Arrested
Came
Go
Were
Office
Just
Wanted
Interesting
Village
Four
Third
I thought I would spend the rest of my life being a good tax lawyer. The interesting thing about being a tax lawyer is, none of your clients are poor. I had clients come to me and say, 'Can you help us make investments?' That led to me getting into the real estate business.
Jerry Reinsdorf
Life
Good
Me
You
Business
Real Estate
Thought
Rest
My Life
Lawyer
Spend
Say
Would
About
Had
Investments
Come
Make
Clients
None
Real
Led
Getting
Being
Tax
Estate
Interesting
Poor
Interesting Thing
Us
Your
Help
Thing
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.
Jerry Robinson
Heroes
More
Could
Felt
Always
Were
Dull
Exotic
Essentially
Interesting
Interesting Things
Villains
Things
I think often we like to talk about the strength of black women, and really, that can become an interesting stereotypical trap - that these women are so strong, that they don't fear anything, they don't need help, and they have no vulnerabilities. Well, that's not a human person! That takes away a lot of the humanity as well.
Jeryl Prescott
Strength
Women
Humanity
Strong
Fear
Black
Become
Think
About
Takes
Stereotypical
Like
Talk
Well
Vulnerabilities
Lot
Women Are
Person
Often
Human
Anything
Interesting
Really
Help
Trap
Away
Need
When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.
Jessalyn Gilsig
Love
Good
You
Hero
Think
Foil
Guy
Know
Always
Story
Place
Interesting
Interesting Place
Then
Good Guy
Playing
I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still hated high school. It's just a rough, rough period in one's life.
Jesse Andrews
Life
Time
Great
People
Wonderful
School
Types
High
Hated
Pretty
High School
Diverse
Various
Stuff
Along
Period
Got
Still
Lot
Going
Just
Where
Pittsburgh
Interesting
Really
Groups
Rough
You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.
Jesse Eisenberg
You
Experience
Tell
Smallest
Because
Were
Roles
Movie
Interesting
Even
Actor
Watch
I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.
Jesse Williams
Love
Family
You
Characters
TV
TV And Film
Find
See
Know
Around
Always
Get
Theater
Interesting
Really
Film
The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks... we're not asking you to invent new laws for us. We're asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books.
Jesse Williams
You
Desperate
Black
Invent
Myth
Power
White
Books
Folks
About
Laws
New
Call
Itself
Which
Interesting
Grip
Interesting Thing
Us
Asking
Whiteness
Include
Thing
I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.
Jessica Biel
Business
Long
Possibly
Hopefully
Give
Longevity
Doing
Up
Going
Interesting
Interesting Things
Things
On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. It's your job as an actress to pull that person apart, and work out why they act the way that they do.
Jessica Brown Findlay
Work
You
Sometimes
Job
Way
Out
Characters
Easy
Find
Shallow
Most
Parts
Surface
Person
Apart
Interesting
Work Out
Really
Dismiss
Certain
Act
Your
Actress
Why
Pull
Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.
Jessica Brown Findlay
Great
People
Cheese
Girl
Find
Geeky
Pretty
No-One
Likes
Very
Roles
Often
Interesting
Scripts
Them
Richer
Aspects
Chalk
Play
I'm either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that's the interesting thing about red hair: there's that fiery Renaissance connotation and the ethereal.
Jessica Chastain
Thought
Hair
Red Hair
About
Red
Renaissance
Maybe
Either
Interesting
Fiery
Interesting Thing
Connotation
Thing
I am not one to go for traditional female roles, because I don't think traditionally female characters are very interesting, and I don't think they represent real life.
Jessica Chastain
Life
Real Life
Think
Characters
Because
Female
Female Characters
Am
Real
Go
Traditional
Very
Roles
Represent
Interesting
It's been fascinating working on a set in New York. Just to be in the thick of it is really interesting, because on any given day you're having to react to what New York is offering, if that's a thunderstorm or blocked traffic or a bunch of noise.
Jessica Collins
Day
You
Noise
Given
Having
Thunderstorm
New
React
Because
Blocked
Been
Traffic
Bunch
Offering
York
Any
Just
New York
Interesting
Really
Working
Fascinating
Thick
Set
When I heard that 'Dracula' was being made into a series by NBC and Carnival, I couldn't resist. I knew they would do something interesting with it. A period drama with a supernatural twist seemed like a whole lot of fun.
Jessica De Gouw
Made
Drama
Carnival
Would
Seemed
Something
Supernatural
Knew
Like
Period
Heard
Lot
Being
Interesting
Fun
Whole
Series
NBC
Twist
Dracula
Resist
It doesn't matter what I use. It can be anything. What's interesting is how what I'm doing meets with the stuff I use.
Jessica Stockholder
Matter
Meets
Stuff
How
Doing
Anything
Interesting
Use
I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.
Jessica Williams
Women
Think
Tell
Most
Stories
Interesting
Fascinating
Profound
The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.
Jessie Mueller
Work
You
Business
Trust
Yourself
People
Be Kind
Try
Will
Else
Tell
Kind
Point
Point Of View
Like
Make
Cultivate
Artist
Listen
Just
Anybody
Anybody Else
Interesting
View
Your
Who
Thing
Starting
I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Marriage
Yourself
Parents
Inevitable
Older
Too
Married
More
Know
Because
Get
Interested
Interesting
Comparison
Why
I think shrinks are interesting to write about because you get to see what the character chooses to reveal, and what behaviors or stances the character tries out on the shrink that might not be part of the character's make-up outside of that room. It's an emotional test-kitchen.
Jill Davis
Character
You
Think
Out
Tries
See
About
Write
Emotional
Outside
Part
Because
Reveal
Get
Behaviors
Interesting
Room
Might
Chooses
Shrink
Shrinks
I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love for the form and different aspects of the horse. Then I thought about the bit, halter, and bridle in terms of how we harness and ride this animal. There were a lot of interesting elements to explore.
Jill Greenberg
Love
Time
Animal
Ride
Thought
Daughter
Harness
Spending
Spending Time
Bit
About
Horse
Reminded
Terms
She
How
Were
Lot
Different
Form
While
Interesting
Then
Explore
Aspects
Bridle
Riding
Elements
Started
As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.
Jill Lepore
Work
Better
Will
Single
Possibility
Something
More
Individual
Factory
Lead
Smaller
Piece
Likely
Well
Single Individual
Doing
Line
Office
Any
Interesting
Skill
Requires
Paid
Less
Assembly
Assembly Line
Assigned
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