top of page
Quote_1.png
Anne Parillaud

"Actors should be timeless and impersonal."

Standard 
 Customized
"Actors should be timeless and impersonal."

More 

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Anne Parillaud
"Actors should be timeless and impersonal."

Actor

Quote_1.png
Anne Parillaud
"I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career."

Motivational

Quote_1.png
Anne Parillaud
"I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search."

People

Quote_1.png
Anne Parillaud
"It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely."

Love

Quote_1.png
Anne Parillaud
"To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?"

Purpose

Quote_1.png
Anne Parillaud
"Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks."

Body

Quote_1.png
Anne Parillaud
"I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion."

Emotional

Quote_1.png
Anne Parillaud
"Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself."

Love

bottom of page