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Voices have always been my way into a character. I usually approach the voice first.


Melissa Rauch
Tags: Always Been Way
A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.
Ving Rhames
Tags: More Out Way
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
Anson Mount
Tags: You Really Come
Can I play a southern character? You betcha. Can I do the voice of Tourist Dad and Carnival Barker? Ya betcha. Can I do Fix-It Felix? Ya betcha. But I don't want to just play southern characters, so I hide it; I bury it. I tamp it down like a secret. Like a dirty little secret.
Rob Huebel
Tags: Dad You Like
My role is Katara: in 'The Last Airbender,' I'm a water bender from the southern water tribe, and my character is really strong but also loving.
Nicola Peltz
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.


Calvin Trillin
Tags: You Think Could
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
Nell Freudenberger
Tags: Me Way Some
In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
Viggo Mortensen
People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.
Tom Felton
Tags: You People Me
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
Raina Telgemeier
Tags: Smile Like Just
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
Adora Svitak
Tags: Age About Been
People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.
Sue Miller
Tags: Men People Always
I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
Zach Braff
Tags: Me Think Who
I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great.
Ridley Scott
Tags: Great Who Really
I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.
James Blake
Tags: Really Been Way
The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.
Terry Pratchett
I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Tags: About Been Day
I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen.
Ruth Glick
Tags: Power Like Get
I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them.
Clyde Edgerton
Tags: Think More Had
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I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.


Daryl Hall
Tags: Who Out Really