Quotes about actor (775 quotes, page 8)

“I mean no disrespect to any of our current climate at all, but I have been an actor for almost two decades now, and this is a dream come true to be able to create a network comedy that just makes people laugh…What I love about comedy is that, like music, sports and food, it brings us all together.”

Kal Penn (1977) American actor and civil servant

On his show Sunnyside in “Kal Penn Talks Putting A Twist On Immigration Narrative With ‘Sunnyside’ & Chances For Another ‘Harold And Kumar’ Movie” https://deadline.com/2019/09/kal-penn-sunnyside-nbc-immigration-comedy-harold-and-kumar-1202743466/ in Deadline (2019 Sep 26)

Sport , Food , Dreams , People

“What we’d depicted and its implications stayed in the minds of every actor and crew member for a long time. I’m sure there were some nightmares. There are some things so far outside our experience or comprehension that they are unthinkable. Nuclear war is one.”

Mick Jackson (director) (1943) film director

How we made the nuclear apocalypse TV drama Threads

War , Time

“…as an actor, trying to do the best you can on a film, you think, do I say thank you or fuck you?”

Alfre Woodard (1952) American film, stage, and television actress

On how, in one project that she worked on, other actors were given more takes than Woodard in “In Praise of the One-Scene Performance: An Interview with Alfre Woodard” https://www.popmatters.com/176250-in-praise-of-the-one-scene-performance-an-interview-with-alfre-wooda-2495711026.html in Pop Matters (2013 Nov 7)

Thinking

“Playwrights are the most gregarious writers—to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. So whenever I have to go back into my writing cocoon, I get a little scared to be alone. But that's when the voices come to you. Silence is the start.”

Katori Hall (1981) American playwright

On needing solitary time to produce works in “5 Ways Katori Hall Gave In to Life, Love and Her Own Creativity” http://www.oprah.com/spirit/katori-hall-playwright-interview-the-mountaintop-play#ixzz65lY0pzMR in O Magazine

Silence

“I played so many oriental princesses and cowtown saloon madams after that I lost count. I broke in all the new actors, to use a phrase. I acted with Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis before they became big names.”

Yvonne De Carlo (1922–2007) Canadian-American actress, dancer, and singer

Source: As quoted in "A girl no longer, but . . . De Carlo's a beauty still" (1975)

Princess

“I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.”

Chadwick Boseman (1976–2020) American actor

Star , Thinking

“The comedian studies himself; the actor studies other people. The comedian wants to be himself; the actor wants to be anyone but themselves.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012 — Present), Season 3 (2014)

Study , People

“God just put a love for it inside of me, I love telling stories, drawing and painting. Animation is a fairly solitary art form. But what happens when you sit in a theater with an audience and you hear their audible responses to your work—the crying, the laughter—there is nothing like it. I just love storytelling. I am a ham actor with a pencil. I love performing on canvas or on paper or right now on a digital screen.”

John Pomeroy (1951) animator

Animation professor returns to roots as illustrator of Disney biography https://www.lipscomb.edu/now/animation-professor-returns-roots-illustrator-disney-biography (May 8, 2019)

God , Drawing , Painting , Art

“[T]he artist sells the work of his brush and in this he is a merchant. The writer sells to any who will buy, let his ideas be what they will. The teacher sells his knowledge of books—often in too low a market—to those who would have this knowledge passed on to the young.
The doctor... too is a merchant. His stock-in-trade is his intimate knowledge of the physical man and his skill to prevent or remove disabilities. ...The lawyer sometimes knows the laws of the land and sometimes does not, but he sells his legal language, often accompanied by common sense, to the multitude who have not yet learned that a contentious nature may squander quite as successfully as the spendthrift. The statesman sells his knowledge of men and affairs, and the spoken or written exposition of his principles of Government; and he receives in return the satisfaction of doing what he can for his nation, and occasionally wins as well a niche in its temple of fame.
The man possessing many lands, he especially would be a merchant... and sell, but his is a merchandise which too often nowadays waits in vain for the buyer. The preacher, the lecturer, the actor, the estate agent, the farmer, the employé, all, all are merchants, all have something to dispose of at a profit to themselves, and the dignity of the business is decided by the manner in which they conduct the sale.”

Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) America born English businessman

The Romance of Commerce (1918), Concerning Commerce

Waiting , Law , Business , Learning

“I love sci-fi, especially when it comes to dialogue with fans; they're so involved with the series. It's a great experience to be able to talk with the fans of the show. As an actor, you know much more about your character, even more so sometimes than gets shown on the show. Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.”

Brooke Nevin (1982) Canadian actress

'Breakout Kings' Actor Brooke Nevin Grows Up https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/breakout-kings-actor-brooke-nevin-grows-56115/ (June 1, 2011)

Love , Making love

“Every safety measure has been taken, and I know I’m in good hands. The important thing for an actor or performer is to get constant visibility; now with films being stalled, this is the perfect opportunity for us to impress audiences every day. After the show, I will make my Bollywood debut, and down south, I really hope I get a chance to work with Vijay Sethupathi sir.”

Nikki Tamboli (1996) Indian Actress

Bigg Boss 14: Nikki Tamboli wants to work with Vijay Sethupathi after reality show

Perfection , Chance , Making love , Hope

“A lot of the challenge with TV, as opposed to making movies, is that you have to leave room for the characters in the story to tell themselves. Sometimes you don’t know where a character is going to go and what’s going to happen to them until you’ve seen the actor take that part and make it their own. Then, like novelists say, the book starts to write itself, and the characters start to tell their own story. And then, we know where they’re going, as opposed to mapping it out, step by step. We have broad, general strokes, but you’ve got to leave space for these characters to live and breathe.”

Bruno Heller (1960) British screenwriter

Showrunner Bruno Heller Talks GOTHAM, Avoiding a "Villain of the Week" Format, How the Films Impacted Their Approach to the Show, and More https://collider.com/gotham-interview-bruno-heller/ (September 22, 2014)

Making love , Parting , Books

“I was a working actor. I believed that was my job and you did your job. In those days, I was not picking and choosing. I never really did, unless it was offensive or something I didn't want to do.”

Audrey Dalton (1934) actress

An Interview with Audrey Dalton on Olivia & Joan, Bob Hope, and William Castle https://heraldcourier.com/news/local/tinseltown-talks-audrey-dalton-survived-a-sinking-a-serpent-and-a-stallion/article_b29b83e8-df6c-11e3-963a-001a4bcf6878.html (May 22, 2014)

“Actresses can only play women. I'm an actor, I can play anything.”

Whoopi Goldberg (1955) American actress

Speaking on The Today Show on January 13, 1986; as quoted in Whoopi Goldberg on Stage and Screen https://www.google.com/books/edition/Whoopi_Goldberg_on_Stage_and_Screen/WTH-SHM1LrkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22an%20actress%20can%20only%20play%20a%20woman%22 (2013) by Lisa Pertillar Brevard, p. 18.

Women

“But I want very much to be accepted as a good actor, and I have to admit this. Just before the first screenings of The Color Purple, I had some doubts about my name. Steven had told me the billing would read, "And Introducing Whoopi Goldberg as Celie." I had nightmares that when it appeared, a little ripple of laughter would run through the audience and it would grow and grow until it became a horrendous roar of guffaws. Well, I forced myself to go to a screening, and when my name appeared, all I could think was, "Oh, my, how elegant that looks!"”

Whoopi Goldberg (1955) American actress

And no one laughed at all."
As quoted in "Hoopla of Movie Stardom Catches Up With Whoopi" by Philip Wuntch, Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel (January 3, 1986), p. 6S.

Reading , Thinking , Appearance , Color

“I’m just one of those guys you know. I lived in England for eight years, I lived in America and I live in Canada. It’s sort of Canadian syndrome. There’s a whole bunch of British actors like that too, where you go, "I think I know that guy, I’ve seen him a million times but I have no idea what his name is."”

Daniel Kash (1959) Canadian actor

It’s that kind of thing, I don’t know if that will ever change but that is what my life is.
Interview: Daniel Kash Talks Mama, Aliens and Defiance https://www.gamesradar.com/interview-daniel-kash-talks-mama-aliens-and-defiance/ (June 14, 2013)

Idea , Guy , Thinking , Time

“a lot of actors, we create a backstory of our own in our heads and we often relate it to our intimates in the film, say my husband. But it just depends on how actors want to work.”

Freda Foh Shen (1948) American actress

Freda Foh Shen for BOOKS OF BLOOD https://www.nightmarishconjurings.com/2020/10/17/interview-freda-foh-shen-for-books-of-blood/ (October 17, 2020)

Relation ships , Dependency

“I can't choose any particular roles. I enjoyed all of them. I think it's very important for an actor to be able to enjoy playing many different kinds of characters.”

Akira Kubo (1936) Japanese actor

KAIJU CONVERSATIONS: An Interview with Akira Kubo https://web.archive.org/web/20060220090732/http://www.historyvortex.org/InterviewAkiraKubo.html (December 1995)

Thinking

“At that time I needed a mask rather than an actor, and Eastwood had only two facial expressions: one with the hat and one without it.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

Sergio Leone
Source: Mininni, Francesco (1988), Intervista: Sergio Leone http://www.cinemadelsilenzio.it/index.php?mod=interview&id=17, Cinema del Silenzo (see also, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/jun/06/1)

Time

“In a movie, however, you might see an actor playing a character, and the actor may be a super grumpy person in real life, and that will, of course, come through. But you tend to think that’s just a character choice. But when you can see a long-running show and someone has made significant personal changes in their lives, you can really see that come across on screen.”

Andrew Francis (1985) Canadian actor

Interview With Actor Andrew Francis, “Chesapeake Shores” https://mydevotionalthoughts.net/2019/09/interview-with-actor-andrew-francis-chesapeake-shores-2.html (September 25, 2019)

Personality , Life , Thinking , Change

“The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it. It may be a very small thing in terms of the problems that exist in the world, but it is a thing, and it's something I can do, and like to do—am thrilled to do actually.”

Grace Zabriskie (1941) American actress

Grace Zabriskie: Methodical Madness https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/grace-zabriskie-methodical-madness-42678/ (June 26, 2001)

Problem , Understanding , Sense , World

“Sometimes it’s like I’m two different actors with two different careers, the Star Trek career and the other career.”

Colm Meaney (1953) Irish actor

Colm Meaney: 'explaining Ireland to the British' is 'quite a task' https://www.irishpost.com/news/colm-meaney-interview-173911 (November 15, 2019)

Star

“For me, being an actor and being a reggae musician are two flowers blooming from the same root. I see it as my strongest asset in order to make the world a better place. Acting and being a musician is like being an instrument mixing dreams and reality.”

Yōsuke Kubozuka (1979) Japanese actor

Yôsuke Kubozuka Talk ‘Silence’, Martin Scorsese, His Reggae Career, Japan and More http://www.cutprintfilm.com/features/interviews/yosuke-kubozuka/ (March 16, 2017)

Flowers , Reality , Making love , World

“Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.”

Constance Wu (1982) American actress

“I have always been attracted to difficult work, there really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.”

Robert Powell (1944) English television and film actor

Robert Powell on Jesus, marriage and the Belgian detective: 'My Poirot is my Poirot' https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/theatre/454276/Robert-Powell-talks-Jesus-Pan-s-People-and-Poirot (January 16, 2014)

Life

“I am an actor and I'm always going to be an actor and I have fun.”

Art Evans (actor) (1942) American actor

“Some people suggested that I should try something else. It was a lot of things, but nothing really stood out for me. Nothing felt right, and this job as an actor happened by coincidence.”

Claudia Kim (1985) South Korean actress

"I hope I am representing Asians well: Claudia Kim (IANS Interview)" in Business Standard (23 November 2018) https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SEB-88149

People

“God gave me this talent of being an actor, and I’m not going to waste it. That’s just who I am. I love working, and with five kids and a fantastic wife, I want to make sure I’m taking care of everyone. That’s what my dad did, and that’s what I’m going to do.”

Neal McDonough (1966) American actor

Neal McDonough Admits Putting God And His Family First Has Been ‘Hard’ On His Career (Exclusive) https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/neal-mcdonough-admits-putting-god-and-his-family-first-was-hard-on-his-career-exclusive/ (January 5, 2019)

God , Love

“But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.”

Mary Elizabeth Winstead (1984) American actress and singer

"Exclusive Mary Elizabeth Winstead Interview (Page 2)" in Female First (29 July 2008) https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/Exclusive+Mary+Elizabeth+Winstead+Interview-153677-page2.html

Past

“I was very lucky in my career and I loved it. But I don’t think I was accomplished enough as an actor to be remembered particularly. No, I’d like to be remembered as a decent human being, and a caring one.”

Grace Kelly (1929–1982) American actress and Princess consort of Monaco

Interview with Pierre Salinger, June 22, 1982

Thinking , Love

“Writers are a sorry lot. The best you can say of them is that they are better than actors and that's not much.”

John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Appendix, letter to Chase Horton (8 June 1959)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

“Life is a play acted by dying men,
Where, if its heroes seem to foot it well
And go light-tongued without grimace of pain,
Death will be found anon. And who shall tell
Which part was saddest, or in youth or age,
When the tired actor stops and leaves the stage?”

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) English poet and writer

'Esther, A Young Man's Tragedy" (1892), Sonnet II http://www.sonnets.org/esther.htm

Pain , Light , Youth , Age

“Of course, people are more affected by actors or acting. But as a filmmaker, I need some logic. And this was my logic in making these two films, and how I connected these stories and these films together. People say my films don’t have any plot or storyline, but in my logic there is a storyline.”

Wong Kar-wai (1958) Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and film director

"Wong Kar-wai by Han Ong" in Bomb Magazine (1 Janaury 1998) https://bombmagazine.org/articles/wong-kar-wai-1/

People

“The one thing you know after completing a degree in Philosophy is that you don’t know anything. That disqualifies you from almost every profession….. except perhaps being an actor!”

Nick Brimble (1944) British actor

“If we cant make movies in our mother tongue, we won't achieve the best emotions and feelings from our actors”

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Feeling

“You could heave a brick out of the window and hit ten actors who could play my parts. I just happened to be on the right corner at the right time.”

Boris Karloff (1887–1969) English actor

As quoted in "All He Needed Was a Good Scare" by Samuel Grafton, Good Housekeeping (August 1951), p. 136

Time , Parting

“I'm a very disciplined actor, but I also believe in kicking back and having a glass of wine.”

Lucy Peacock (actress) (1960) Canadian actress

Out, damned fear! https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/out-damned-fear/article18228395/ (May 28, 2005)

Wine

“The main thing is to remain yourself, and this is impossible for a professional actor. Although it is difficult to think ahead. It seems to me that cinema and music, complementing each other, can coexist in my life.”

Viktor Tsoi (1962–1990) Soviet rock musician (1962-1990)

"Appendix I. Viktor Tsoi: interview diary" https://ik-ptz.ru/en/istoriya/prilozhenie-i-viktor-coi-dnevnik-intervyu-fragmenty-iz-odnoimennoi.html

Music , Thinking , Life

“The greatest way to become an actor is to get married too early.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Way

“I think any time you have an ensemble of actors, everyone’s objectives are unique and individual. So it’s hard for me to collectively say whether they were allies in this…. I do know that the way things got spun by the end changed my relationships with them.”

Daniel Dae Kim (1968) American actor

"Daniel Dae Kim Spoke Up to ‘Lost’ Creators Over Pilot’s Asian Stereotypes: ‘It Was a Land Mine’" in Indie Wire (12 April 2021) https://tvline.com/2021/04/12/daniel-dae-kim-hawaii-five-0-contract-dispute-interview/

Change , Time , Thinking , Way

“I wanted to be an actor. I never wanted to grow up. I never wanted to. I wanted to fly.”

Jeffrey Kramer (1945) American actor and producer

Exclusive: Jeffrey Kramer Reflects on 45 Years of JAWS and His Killer Career https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/366940/exclusive-jeffrey-kramer-reflects-on-45-years-of-jaws-and-his-killer-career/ (January 4, 2021)

Flying

“People have this idea that I'm part of show business royalty. I cherish the relationship I had with my father, and I'd love to fulfill the fantasy. But when I was young, he was a working actor and hadn't quite made it yet.”

Michael Douglas (1944) American actor and producer

As quoted in "Michael Douglas Will Never Stop Working" in AARP (25 March 2021) https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2021/michael-douglas-interview.html

People , Idea , Business , Love

“There were no agents, no companies and as actors we had to do everything by ourselves. I would do my own make-up, prepare my own outfits from home and bring them to set the next day.”

Brigitte Lin (1954) Taiwanese actress

On her filmmaking environment within the emerging Taiwanese cinema industry in "Brigitte Lin, a timeless national treasure" in Taipei Times (15 May 2018) https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2018/05/15/2003693091

Home

“I don’t keep any notion of certain lines that shouldn’t be crossed. I want my fellow actors to feel like they are free and can give any kind of performance, whatever seems natural. I think all actors would feel that way and I think it’s what the director would want as well.”

Song Kang-ho (1967) South Korean actor

As quoted in "Interview: Song Kang-ho, Parasite" in Cinevue (5 February 2020) https://cine-vue.com/2020/02/interview-song-kang-ho-parasite.html

Nature , Thinking , Way , Feeling

“Of course, there might be some influence in my performances, but it’s not as if I intentionally sought out those experiences for my acting career. For actors, everyone goes through a difficult period early on and you do these sorts of jobs.”

Song Kang-ho (1967) South Korean actor

As quoted in "Interview: Song Kang-ho, Parasite" in Cinevue (5 February 2020) https://cine-vue.com/2020/02/interview-song-kang-ho-parasite.html

“The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.”

Song Kang-ho (1967) South Korean actor

As quoted in "Song Kang Ho and Ko Asung Talk SNOWPIERCER, Working with Director Bong Joon Ho, Reuniting to Play Father and Daughter & Working with Hollywood Stars" in Collider (28 June 2014) https://collider.com/song-kang-ho-ko-asung-snowpiercer-interview/

Feeling

“I think, as an actor, you create things for your character that you think will make it more personal to you, because on the day, you want to make sure that you're truly there in the moment.”

Kelly Marie Tran (1989) American actress

As quoted in "Q&A: 'The Last Jedi' breakout Kelly Marie Tran on her whirlwind 'Star Wars' journey and Rose's future" in Baltimore Sun (20 December 2017) https://www.baltimoresun.com/la-et-mn-star-wars-the-last-jedi-rose-kelly-marie-tran-20171220-htmlstory.html

Personality , Thinking

“I wanted to go to college to be a journalist and follow in my dad's work. And then I became an actor.”

Lana Condor (1997) Vietnamese-American actress

As quoted in "TATBILB’s Lana Condor On Her Biracial Family, Noah Centineo Thirst, And Israel Broussard’s Tweets" in Elle (30 August 2018) https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a22876577/lana-condor-to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before-interview/

“My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the audience decide.”

Sebastian Stan (1982) Romanian-American actor

Quote

“I think especially television is a conversation between the writer and the audience, and they're bringing all of their humanity to it. The actors are really just this conduit in the middle, who everybody kind of thinks of like the player, but no, we're really the instrument.”

Penn Badgley (1986) American actor and musician

Source: "Penn Badgley Explores Joe Goldberg's 'Primal' Parenting In You Season 3" in ELLE https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a37886117/penn-badgley-you-season-3-interview/ (18 October 2021)

Thinking

“It doesn't matter who you are as an actor; that's really always in the script. It wouldn't make sense a lot of times to drastically change things. It would threaten to change the story arc and all that kind of stuff. I think really what an actor does is an instrument, not a player.”

Penn Badgley (1986) American actor and musician

Source: "Penn Badgley Explores Joe Goldberg's 'Primal' Parenting In You Season 3" in ELLE https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a37886117/penn-badgley-you-season-3-interview/ (18 October 2021)

Change , Time , Thinking , Sense

“As a person, I intellectualize plenty before and after, right? But really, as an actor during, I don't need to apply that same intellectual process because, first of all, when you play a character for this long, you just kind of know... It's very intuitive.”

Penn Badgley (1986) American actor and musician

Source: "'You': Penn Badgley on Joe's Wild Story in Season 3 and How Season 4 May Be "Quite Different"" in Collider https://collider.com/you-penn-badgley-interview-season-3-netflix-season-4/ (18 October 2021)
Context: I will say that honestly, as an actor ...

Personality

“In fact, I don't even call myself an actor. I'm a reactor. I listen to what to what the other guys says and I react to it.”

John Wayne (1907–1979) American film actor

Source: Speaking in 1958 with Charles Hamblett; as quoted in The Hollywood Cage (1969) by Hamblett, reproduced in "The Hollywood Cage': Wayne Has Method, Goldwyn Has Hope, Welles Has Wasteland" by Hamblett, The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 4, 1969), p. 109
Context: That's the John Wayne method.

Guy

“Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.”

Dave Bautista (1969) American actor and professional wrestler

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“As an actor, it really puts you there, like you’re really that person, you’re not yourself, you’re not dressing like yourself any more, you’re really embodying a different era. That’s really one of the most exciting things about acting for me, is the dress-up aspect of it.”

Ricardo Hoyos (1995) Canadian actor

Source: Interview: Bumblebee’s Ricardo Hoyos https://brieftake.com/interview-bumblebee-ricardo-hoyos/ (April 5, 2019)

Personality

“Rejection is a part of my job. It has been a part of my career as a food person and a filmmaker. It was certainly part of my job as an actor, and even more part of a job as a model. So, it is something that I have to accept. It’s not for the faint of heart.”

Padma Lakshmi (1970) Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer

Source: "Padma Lakshmi Understands That American Foodways Are Complicated" in Harper's Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/travel-dining/a38254952/padma-lakshmi-taste-the-nation-interview/ (16 November 2021)

Personality , Food , Heart , Parting

“I’m down for any type of movie. I never want to limit myself as an actor to the possibilities that are out there. I am down for anything. If anything that I do, I do the best of my ability.”

Uriah Shelton (1997) American actor and singer

Source: Interview with Uriah Shelton https://www.scifiandscary.com/interview-with-uriah-shelton/ (28 May 2017)

“There is also a therapeutic component in the Organic Creative Process: with the exploration of the various characters, the actor develops the knowledge of himself, even through suffering.”

Giovanni Morassutti (1980) Italian actor, theatre director and cultural entrepreneur.

From the essay Strasberg Legacy

Suffering , Knowledge

“In my house, I was surrounded by actors, by nothing but talk of plays and performances, so I felt it was more advantageous to go in that direction, now, I can’t quit.”

Nakamura Kichiemon II (1944–2021) Japanese kabuki actor (1944-2021)

Source: His Grandfather’s Kabuki https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-09-15-ca-44008-story.html (September 15, 1996)

Housing

“At least in the initial phases, legitimacy will be demonstrated not by the holding of a plebiscite or by the support of organized and broadly representative groups but simply by the ability of the intervening state to win compliance from key actors and get the job done.”

Bruce Gilley (1966) researcher

Source: The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics, Page 29 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352039835_The_Case_for_Colonialism_A_Response_to_My_Critics The case for colonialism, Gilley, 2017

Support

“I’m sure everyone is different, but I believe the performance will always be stronger if you’re working with another actor.”

Yuri Lowenthal (1971) American voice actor

Source: SPIDER-MAN Exclusive Interview With Yuri Lowenthal On Playing Peter Parker, Cameo, PRINCE OF PERSIA, & More https://www.comicbookmovie.com/spider-man/spider-man_ps4/spider-man-exclusive-interview-with-yuri-lowenthal-on-playing-peter-parker-cameo-prince-of-persia-more-a182153#gs.uob0p8 (February 2, 2021)

“I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response. For an actor that is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with you, which is why I won't exclude you from this stage in my life.
For now, I'm not changing anything. I will insist on work when I can; the doctors will insist on rest when I must. If you see a little less spring in my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you will know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway.”

Charlton Heston (1923–2008) American actor

Winning the Cultural War (1999), Video farewell (2002)

Spring , Sea , Life , Change

“We've seen a parade of multinational corporations, financial institutions, Hollywood actors, and even American sports superstars joining a shameless stampede to see who can pander most effectively to a regime that is the reigning world champion of predatory economic behavior, human rights abuses, and even genocide.”

Tom Tiffany (1957) American businessman and politician

Exclusive—Rep. Tom Tiffany: Time for U.S. to Recognize Reality by Recognizing Taiwan https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/12/02/exclusive-rep-tom-tiffany-time-for-u-s-to-recognize-reality-by-recognizing-taiwan/ (2 December 2021)

Sport , World , Behavior

“Politics is stressful, it's scary, tiresome. Acting is like a breath of fresh air. They're both fictional kind of creativity: politicians are bad actors.”

Hugh Grant (1960) British actor and film producer

“When I become a character in a movie or drama … I can think about the character only and not the complicated matters of my own life. I feel ecstasy in those moments and it’s what keeps me going as an actor. It’s not about the money, it’s not about the honor.”

Gong Yoo (1979) South Korean actor

Source: "Gong Yoo on becoming South Korea’s leading man" in CNN https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/28/asia/gong-yoo-talk-asia/index.html (30 August 2017)

Money , Thinking , Life , Feeling

“I think an actor's filmography represents the direction and the course of the acting that an actor has pursued. I'm filling in my filmography to let people know who I am and how I see the world as an actor.”

Gong Yoo (1979) South Korean actor

Source: "Star actor Gong Yoo hopes his filmography can show who he is" in Yonhap https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20210414006600315 (14 April 2021)

People , Thinking , World

“In the perspective of the audience, the movies that make me think are the most precious. I want to naturally be projected onto the film or role. From there, applying my tendencies and emotions is what I believe is the most natural way for actors to tell a story.”

Gong Yoo (1979) South Korean actor

Source: "Gong Yoo Talks About The Difficulties Of Getting Out Of Character And His Approach As An Actor" https://www.soompi.com/article/1464450wpp/gong-yoo-talks-about-the-difficulties-of-getting-out-of-character-and-his-approach-as-an-actor (15 April 2021)

Nature , Thinking , Way

“Even when I was a struggling actor, I was writing scripts, which were terrible, but I was fueled by a belief that I had to create the door. The right door wasn’t always going to open for me. Sometimes I was going to have to just crash through it or build one where there was no door before.”

Simu Liu (1989) Chinese-born Canadian actor

Source: "‘Shang-Chi’ Star Simu Liu on “Betrayal” of ‘Kim’s Convenience’ Cancellation" in The Hollywood Reporter (21 May 2021) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/shang-chi-star-simu-liu-1234955154/

“Any actor who thinks they're a sex symbol? Cringe.”

Jonathan Bailey (1988) British actor

"Jonathan Bailey: Jonathan Bailey Is Giving Us the Vapors" in GQ https://www.gq.com/story/gq-hype-jonathan-bailey (9 March 2022)

Sex , Thinking

“Theatre has often saved the day for me and that’s why I’ll forever think I’m a theatre actor more than anything else.”

Jonathan Bailey (1988) British actor

"Jonathan Bailey: Jonathan Bailey: brilliant from top to bottom" in The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jonathan-bailey-interview-brilliant-from-top-to-bottom-z6k8fct79 (20 December 2020)

Thinking

“As a film actor, my job is to facilitate the director’s vision. If there’s something I’m doing that they don’t agree with, I drop it.”

Nicolas Cage (1964) American actor

"Nicolas Cage on his legacy, his philosophy of acting and his metaphorical — and literal — search for the Holy Grail." in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/07/magazine/nicolas-cage-interview.html (7 August 2019)

“I wanted to break boundaries for myself as an actor, where it's not to tell the story and do a good job, but to go to another level where I feel free.”

Fala Chen (1982) Hong Kong actress

"Fala Chen Came to America to Find Herself—And Wound Up Being Cast in a Groundbreaking Marvel Movie" in Harpers Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a37711969/fala-chen-shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings/ (24 September 2021)

Feeling

“I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.”

Mila Kunis (1983) American actress

"Mila Kunis Says There Is A Double Standard For Males And Females In Hollywood" in Complex https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/07/mila-kunis-says-there-is-a-double-standard-for-males-and-females-in-hollywood (18 July 2012)

Thinking

“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences — nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Entry (1977)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

Fate , Youth , Age

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Strong , Passion , Fashion , World

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