#act

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state. ↗

— Rene Char

#behind #gentle #inner #spirit #state

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#book #breathing #character #her #i

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre. ↗

— Frances McDormand

#always #been #classical #debt #depression

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#fog #grotesque #kind #larger #like

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#always #i #i always #movie #movie star

There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#been #cause #certain #death #energy

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is. ↗

— Joel McHale

#agent #career #control #good #hard

I would take lots of falls and you know, get shot three or four times and this sort of thing, so all that sort of stuff. And there are tussles with various characters. I like that kind of thing. ↗

— Marton Csokas

#falls #four #get #i #kind

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle. ↗

— James Dean

#before #course #cradle #even #out

I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting! ↗

— Danica McKellar

#angeles #born #couple #diego #i