top of page
.png){kind=small}
"To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before."
Standard
Customized
More
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise."
Life
"TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't."
Age
"At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life."
Death
"I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there."
Work
"To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before."
Acting
"I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off."
Thought
"I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth."
Love
"Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them."
Time
"There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can."
Myth
"We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story."
Actor
bottom of page