As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the fascinating duality of characters that an actor can portray, embodying contrasting traits of light and dark.
Sigourney Weaver's quote highlights the intriguing challenge actors face when playing characters that possess dual natures, such as the contrasting personas of Jekyll and Hyde. By exploring both the light and dark aspects of a character, actors have the opportunity to delve deep into the complexities of human nature, showcasing a range of emotions and experiences that resonate with audiences.
In practice
In a drama workshop, discussing characters with dual natures.
I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.
Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.
Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!
When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.
Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.
I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently.
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.
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