"If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl."

Acting, Circumstances

42

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl."

Exlpore more Acting quotes

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Acting, Writing

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Acting, Man

"Acting is happy agony."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Acting,

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

Will Durant, American Historian

Acting, Machine, Majority, Minority

"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."

Siegfried Sassoon, English Poet

Acting, Soldiers

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

Acting,

"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Acting, Jobs

"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"

Elia Kazan, American Director

Acting, Approval, Artist, Quick

"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."

Leslie Easterbrook, American Actress

Acting, Day, Film

"I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage."

Micky Dolenz, American Actor

Acting, Learning, Now

Explore more quotes by Peter Sarsgaard

"I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good."

Act

"I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones."

Change

"If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do."

Chance

"Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again."

Home

"I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree."

Being

"It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with."

Love

"The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over."

Silence

"I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them."

People

"But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film."

Work

"You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl."

Life