Quotes About Background

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I talk about my family quite a lot, my kids. Anything that resonates with me I talk about. The important thing is it should be able to work in a family setting.

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.

I think my music ran parallel to a lot of people's lives. We were always chugging along in the background.

Any important series like 'Game of Thrones' or 'The Walking Dead' base their product around the characters and their background.

Huma has made her mark in the industry with films like 'Gangs of Wasseypur' and 'Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana.' I am happy for what she has achieved today because we belong to a non-film background.

I come from garbage.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

If you go back and look at the early promos for Gears 1, you'll see just how different the characters were from the actual first game, both in appearance and background. And it's an evolutionary process.

I come from a Catholic Republican military family in Georgia - the antithesis of Sean's hippie-artist-peacenik background.

You can take the girl out of the estate, but you can't take the estate out of the girl.

The closest person in the industry to me who is like a big brother is Tyrese. He gives me a lot of good advice. We both do the same things. We're both from the same background.

I came from a Conservatoire background where the idea of complexity was very much bound up with good music - good music was seen as complex and difficult to understand.

Charlamagne Tha God on 'The Breakfast Club' is, in my opinion, the best personality on the radio right now. We talk weekly. We couldn't be any different format wise, but we have a very similar background and approach.

When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.

I have a background in counseling because I've been to a lot of therapy.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.