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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyman Quotes
On everyman qualities in actors and characters.
These quotes describe the everyman as a quality actors bring to a role, making distant historical figures or fantastical worlds feel accessible to an audience.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.
- Acting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been very passionate about acting. I appeared in panto in the Everyman from the age of five.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe this is my left-wing conspiracy theory, but the right has re-branded itself as kind of the everyman party: Who's the person you'd rather have a beer with? The Republican Party, even though it's a party of incredible wealth and corporate interests, has hidden behind this everyman quality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing sort of an accessible idea for the regular guy out there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Alice in Wonderland' has been done a million times; why do it again? Nerve's answer is that Alice is Everyman and Everywoman, going through the stages of life.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I look like Everyman on some level, I would say I get recognized once or twice a day.
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- Nov 07, 2020