top of page
.png){kind=small}
"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
Standard
Customized
More
"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To be an actor you have to be a child."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
Religion
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
Power
"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."
Education
"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."
Life
"Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."
Age
"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
Actor
"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."
Life
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."
History
"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"
Heart
"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."
Life
bottom of page