If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.
It's one of the things that makes it enjoyable to keep playing; you have to approach each set differently and make some balance between what you want to do and what seems right.
Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.
The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I'm naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn't even want to count. I need to balance that out.
I've got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I'm dizzy, and it's something to do with that.
I think it's a bill that puts a high priority on religious freedom and recognizes that as a part of the balance.
Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen infringement on the civil rights and liberties of the American people. Undeterred by the public outcry, the president [George Bush] vows to continue spying on American citizens.
Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.
There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.
Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
I love that this film [Into the Forest] has a balance.
The life must be a well-balanced life, not lopsided in any manner to bring contentment.
I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism. . . in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'.