Affinity Quotes

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn`t feel an affinity for them then they wouldn`t be particularly good performances.

(1955) It seems to be almost impossible to find in this country the type of role which has made actors of the Brando (Marlon Brando) and James Dean style. Mine has I think some affinity which hitherto I have only been able to employ in the theatre.

I think he is the greatest example of all that an author of the cinema should be. I feel a fraternal affinity with his way of telling a story. - on Akira Kurosawa

I can play the bad guy, the character with the edge, but I would like him to get the girl without having to put a gun to her head, you know? Look at the careers of Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney started out playing the adversary, too. I feel an affinity towards them. Right now, you have a lot of leading boys, but no leading men in the old sense of the word. There`s a need for that and I think I can bring that to the screen.

The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it`s natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous and I`m afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what`s there, to embrace it. I don`t know why but I`m drawn.

The trip reinforced my suspicions that, despite my Pacific Rim heritage, I`m about as American as you get. (explaining that he feels no particular affinity for Asia and does not want to live there)

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.

I don`t see that the public has that same affinity for protecting the lake that we do as owners, because it`s our home. The lake is our front yard, ... We`re not the bad guys. We`re just trying to exercise our private property rights.

Peter Beard is one of those people I`ve known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

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I`m a huge fan of the music of Broadway, and I have an affinity for what I refer to as the Golden Age of Broadway, ... The music makes me feel good and the music makes audiences feel good.

We use their affinity for ice as a tool to purify the protein.

My affinity for trees as a material seems to come from a childhood spent wandering the forest around Southern Pines - a place with thick underbrush and many intersecting lines evident in the bare winter branches of trees.

I`ve known Kane since he was a sophomore. So in the three years that I have known him, I have come to realize that there is something different about him. I don`t know if it`s his huge smile, his disarming smile, or his affinity for wearing pastel-colored shirts, but after a few minutes with Kane you can`t help but feel good.

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they`re 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he`s the guy who does it for me.

I have a real affinity with Ireland and Dublin and the Irish, and I`m your greatest fan whenever there`s a World Cup or European Championships on.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Maybe it`s legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven`t paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.