#hara

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#connecting #enough #hit #just #no point

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#characters #develops #emotional #force #match

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#american pie #audience #character #even #humping

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#attorney #character #defense #i #i think

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#character #character actor #i #like #myself

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#actually #bean #certainly #character #difficulty

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#already #character #complete #considered #denser

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#always #been #caught #characterized #defining

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#clothes #come #glasses #i #i love

Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character. ↗

— Jane Badler

#character #dressing #halloween #i #knew