#act

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#character #come #different #even #fictional

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#being #distracted #easily #i #i always

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#approach #characters #endow #female #female characters

The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#ever #nothing #only #recorded #said

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#agree #always #attorney #because #character

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#always #am #career #fortunate #i

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies. ↗

— Vanessa Brown

#actually #also #because #classically #could

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. ↗

— Euripides

#acting #fortune #free #law #other

They only babble who practise not reflection. ↗

— Edward Young

#only #practise #reflection #who

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them. ↗

— Robert Boyle

#awake #black #confidence #distracted #fiends