Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.
My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.
I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.
Seeing it makes a magnificent abstract concept real, and reality tends to taint even the most wonderful ideas [...] - Caradoc
The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
To live this life. To live it with wholeness and gratitude and trust. In the pain and the glory. In the mess and the grace. In the sacred and the desperation. This is the stuff of which real superheros are born.
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.
Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.
I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.
I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.
