#act

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow. ↗

— Chuck Close

#focused #good #many #mean #more

We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers. ↗

— Bob Filner

#another #attract #behind #best #child

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor. ↗

— Glenn Close

#celebrity #death #happen #thing #worst

I'm an actor, that's my contribution. ↗

— Glenn Close

#contribution #i

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat. ↗

— John Cleese

#happy #hat #i #look #mind

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both. ↗

— John Cleese

#attractive #both #bright #britain #case

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#admiration #become #between #curious #distance

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#although #am #asia #assistance #because

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#i #just #look #movie #movie star

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#art #audience #enlarge #enough #glass