Stephen Dillane Quotes

I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.

Stephen Dillane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 30, 1956

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In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.

Jerry Lawler

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I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

Andrea Seigel

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Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

John Malkovich

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My first trip to China was 1990, and that was in a world where there were virtually no cars at all on the road, and everybody had bicycles.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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For some people, the highlight of their entire month could be going out and eating a pizza or watching a movie at a multiplex, and here I am visiting four countries in a month. So, in that way, movies have made me socially aware. I now know how simple people live their lives.

Sonam Kapoor

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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Tom Brokaw

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What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

Mike Farrell

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I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of irony and jokes.

Jonathan Stroud

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Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

Dick Wolf

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Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

Conrad Hall

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A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Clint Eastwood

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Never permit failure to become a habit.

William Frederick Book

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