"The big secret in acting is listening to people."

People, Acting, Listening

19

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The big secret in acting is listening to people."

Exlpore more People quotes

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Man, Respect

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

People, Kings

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

People, Superiority

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Goodness

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

People, Nothing

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Faults

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

Dean Koontz, American Author

People, Books, Gifts

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

Dean Koontz, American Author

People, Entertainment, Struggle, Support

"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Acting, Being, Name

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

People, Action, Distrust, Want

Explore more quotes by Eli Wallach

"Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down."

Want,

"But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies."

University,

"All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time."

Time, Mind

"I never lost my appetite for acting."

Acting, Appetite

"Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do."

Acting,

"Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere."

Money, Hollywood, Play

"Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience."

Experience, Character, Play, Theater

"And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done."

Mail,

"What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?"

Makeup, Rest, Will, World

"I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them."

Life, People, Needs, Question