#act

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act? ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#away #carried #get #left #suddenly

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. ↗

— Plautus

#beauty #character #comes #fortune #gift

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor. ↗

— Oliver Platt

#become #i #kid #naive #new

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#any #character #even #i #i do

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#career #curtis #early #even #felt

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#actor #going #i #likes #sort

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#character #creation #deliberate #every #feel

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#cigarettes #contrast #culture #extra #i

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#care #characters #depth #hearing #housewife

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#am #familiar #i #i am #life