“Mas no entanto (consegues acreditar?) eu tenho visto o próprio homem que se gaba da sua ternura, a devorar de uma só vez a carne de seis animais diferentes atirados para uma fricassé. Estranha contradição de conduta! Têm piedade, e comem os objectos da sua compaixão!”
I have seen the very men who have thus boasted of their tenderness at the same time devouring flesh of six different animals tossed up in a fricassee. Strange contrariety of conduct! they pity, and they eat the objects of their compassion!
The citizen of the world, or, Letters from a Chinese philosopher residing in London to his friends in the East, Volume 1 - Página 52 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=CyUvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA52, Oliver Goldsmith - Printed for Taylor & Hessey and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry, 1809
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A Princesa da Babilônia, Capitulo III

Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
Fonte: Alexandria Symonds, "[ Bonnie Wright http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/bonnie-wright," at interviewmagazine.com, June 21, 2011; em resposta à questão: "Você acha que brincar de Gina por tanto tempo deixou você mais parecida com ela?"