Ambiguity Quote by Jed Mercurio Download Open image “One of the things I learned on medical drama 'Bodies' was that actors can't play ambiguity.” — Jed Mercurio ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambiguity Drama Medical Play Theatre Things
As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity. — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always… — T. J. Thyne Copy Share Image
The only way to really portray a character and tell a story well is to be flexible internally. And one of the ways we're… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
As actors, our bodies are our instruments - it is what we have - and so we have to be able to use our… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
I just thought that was so interesting, that people that deal with bodies on a much more corporeal level, like the attendants, had a… — Tamara Jenkins Copy Share Image
Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, actors with conditions would play the characters with these same conditions, but that's a way off. — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
Actors have to remind people that they can do different things, not just the same style of one role. — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people. — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
'Frankenstein' is a timeless classic. As science advances, it becomes more relevant, not less. Its fantasy moves closer to fact, its horrors closer to… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I think a lot of police procedurals are very conventional. With the stuff I'm doing, I'm trying to approach the institution of the police… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Standards in public life have decayed over time... Incompetence is the norm. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
For something like 'Line of Duty' to work, it has to be both plausible and unexpected. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I like to stay away from writing about good versus evil. I think the world is more complicated. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
In the modern workplace, sexism has adopted a more subtle persona; therefore, people can be accused of sexism where it's far harder to determine… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
If you look at American medical fiction written by doctors, like 'The House of God' by Samuel Shem and 'The Blood of Strangers' by… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I'm interested in institutions, particularly in the way institutions close ranks. They have hierarchies and their own ethics. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
It's important that the actor doesn't feel like they're working in a vacuum. If the actor is told, 'Oh, it's a secret; just play… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking about my work, always thinking about where it's taking me. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
The footballer I've admired most in the last ten years is Zinedine Zidane... one of those rare individuals who had the skill but also… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there. — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important.… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image