Barret Oliver quotes

Barret Oliver quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.”
-- Barret Oliver

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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“The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2014). “The Sweet Science”, p.5, Macmillan
“I'm a character actor.”
“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”
“I am officially Jewish, but Iâ€™m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”
“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”
“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".
“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”
“A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.”
“But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect”
“The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.”

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