340 quotes found
“You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.”
“My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an actor is really a spiritual profession, since it means to create life on the stage. ...”
“On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anyw...”
“People with dissociative disorders are like actors trapped in a variety of roles. They have difficulty integrating their memories, their sense of identity and aspects of their consciousness into a ...”
“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and...”
“Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.”
“Now that I think I know what I'm doing, I'm scared. Before this, I just didn't know any better.”
“Grief and rage--you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or your kin having to die. There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about othe...”
“The thing is', (Rufus) Stone said, 'that if you don't believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a tramp, then how can you expect anyone else to believe you? Looking the part is just the surfa...”
“A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.”
“Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.”
“Do you think that the people on reality T.V. shows are kind of good actors? I mean they would have to be! You can't ignore all the cameras and, you know, the whole situation of being on a reality s...”
“On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a pr...”
“Thought before word. Never word before thought.”
“I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of acting ...”
“When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!”
“Act as though everything will be perfectly fine because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.”
“I'm not that good of an actor to fake something like that.”
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.”
“I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.”
