Quotes About Embody

The thing is, you make choices. You do some things and you don't do others and in the end there's not much point in asking what different choices might have gained you, and lost you, unless you have a time machine. You become those choices, you embody them... I'd known I couldn't stay, just as I'd known years before I couldn't be with him, even as I'd gone on pretending I had a choice. I was who I was, and I wanted what I already had.

Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.

You are here to experience life, not to escape from it.

I prefer being the protagonist.

Non leggete per divertirvi o istruirvi, leggete per vivere.

I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.

As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again.

I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

literary acts are inherently disembodied, more notional and distributed. We rely on you to embody us, and we exist because you can.

Don't try to feel anything. Be it. Don't feel it.

If someone puts a character in front of me - no matter what it is, whether there has been a film or not - I want to be that character, not imitate it. There's a difference - a big difference.

I think good acting is always character acting.

It is how you approach the role given to you, and how you relate to that character and then how you adapt and gel into that role which makes you a good actor.

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

We embody our worries. When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out.

Be the person I'm playing. That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something.

The Queen Mother, with a lifetime's popularity, seemed incapable of a bad performance as national grandmother-warm, smiling, human, understanding, she embodied everything the public could want of its grandmother.

See who you are. Be what you see.