#act

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#actor #before #go #i #immediately

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#back #characters #cultures #drawn #i

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#audiences #comedies #commented #ending #fact

Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#body #body language #deal #enough #explicit

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#action #body #cannot #cells #consumers

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#assassins #idealism #without #words

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. ↗

— J. Edgar Hoover

#attraction #banks #element #irresistible #money

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in. ↗

— Bob Hope

#asked #benny #both #his #jack

What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly. ↗

— David Horowitz

#good #left #out #practice #says

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

#character #choose #chooses #depth #encourages