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Letter "A" » Actors and acting
«No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Passion
| Keywords:
effectually, reasoning, robs
«Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.»
«Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king.»
Author: Josephine Hull
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
play down, Shakespeare, sit down, tiring
«Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.»
«People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.»
«Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time»
Author: Elvis Presley
(Actor, Singer)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Singers and singing
| Keywords:
Come and Go, singers
«Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.»
Author: Leonardo DiCaprio
(Actor)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Peace
| Keywords:
characters, emotionally, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays
«On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting»
«Seems like everyone's an actor or an actor's best friend, I wonder what was wrong to begin with that they should all have to pretend.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actor, best friend, pretend, with that
«Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.»
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