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Emily Osment Quote: 'Actors pull from their own experiences ...'

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There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.
Stephen Graham
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
Randal Kleiser
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I actually grew up hearing this a lot: 'If you're an actor, you can only be an actor, and you have to just do that.' But in order to be a good actor, you have to draw on life experiences. To only concentrate on acting, you're cutting yourself off.
Todd Louiso
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If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.
John Frankenheimer
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And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.
Brittany Murphy
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I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.
B.o.B
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A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.
Paul Feig
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I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrating for any actor to have someone who's a celebrity take over your place. Like the 'Uncharted' film, they're trying to find someone to play Nathan Drake. And it's like, why do they not think of us? We do this.
Nolan North
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To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.
Annette Bening
I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape.
Hill Harper
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters.
Stephen Graham
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A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!


Ashton Kutcher
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I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.


Daniel Baldwin
I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: 'What's it like being a black dancer?' So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them.
Misty Copeland
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Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.


Martina Hingis
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I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
Katey Sagal
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As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.
Chris Evans
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
Barkhad Abdi
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It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.
Tony Curtis
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In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity. I want people to discover themselves as actors, as creative actors, by having interactive experiences.
Golan Levin