I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.
when you hate someone, at the same time, you grab that person and give a space in yourself for that person. that's when your hatred might turn into affection, into love.
Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.
I've found that he way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They're more fascinated with the process.
It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
I may not be the coolest and friendliest person you ever met but I promise you that I Will be the bravest person to fight for you
Eva," she said exasperated. "You should've established a personal style by now-and it shouldn't be sweats!" Monica, Eva Tramell's mother, in "Reflected in You
A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.
Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.
In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they're not supposed to have. They don't always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.
Mistakes from the past can never be repaired. Do your best in the present, to be a good person in the future.
I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
IF your mindset does not include a personal life plan, your Life Success Project can NEVER have any chance of real success.
You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.
I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.
