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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
Orlando Bloom
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins
Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?
Jason Isaacs
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You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As people do more and more superhero stuff, the characters are what distinguish it, just like in cop shows.
Greg Berlanti
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I'm following a real event and real people.


John Landis
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I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.
Kathryn Lasky
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I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.
Paul Haggis
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.


Tanit Phoenix
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I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.
Romola Garai
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Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.


Beyonce Knowles
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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.


Chuck Jones
I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.
Jane Badler
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
Samantha Bee
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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
Lloyd Alexander
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It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.


Lee R. Raymond
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I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.


Arthur Hailey
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I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.
Karolyn Grimes
With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.
Kerry Stokes
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If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.


Christian Bale
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Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.
Nathan Myhrvold