Richard Dormer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?
-- Richard Dormer

#Decision #Alternatives #Might
Sometimes you even start to sound like the character, because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones, it becomes a part of you.
-- Richard Dormer

#Character #Breathing #Sound
I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing has subtext. And as a writer, you look at the big scope of things, the big story, rather than just your individual story line, because I think it's important to know what you're in and how you fit into it.
-- Richard Dormer

#Writing #Thinking #Important
When you get out onto a glacier that's the size of Northern Ireland and it's so vast, and you're standing on top of it and you can see forever, it's so pure and clear that you can see for miles and miles and miles. You really do think, "Wow, there is a god!" You feel very humbled.
-- Richard Dormer

#Thinking #Forever #Glaciers
When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better.
-- Richard Dormer

#Games #Get Better #Actors
It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.
-- Richard Dormer

#Real #Character #Luxury
When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?"
-- Richard Dormer

#Thinking #What If #Ifs
As a writer you see the big picture and how you can tell as one character, how your storyline is going to meet up with all these other storylines. And as an actor you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.
-- Richard Dormer

#Character #Thinking #Details
A lot of the time, because of the polar bears you're not allowed to go outside the door without your hunting rifle, even if it's to go to the local shop. The polar bears will come from nowhere, and you'll be eaten alive.
-- Richard Dormer

#Hunting #Doors #Bears
I had an outfit that was designed for minus 30 degrees, so I had to work with costume to strap ice packs all over me because I was boiling, even out on the glacier. I was constantly trying to unzip it and take off the hat. I was just sweating. I found it very hot.
-- Richard Dormer

#Ice #Trying #Glaciers
I was fascinated by the world. I thought, "I just want to be a part of this world."
-- Richard Dormer

#World #Want #This World

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