#act

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor. ↗

— Alan Bates

#emotional #instinctive #more #performance #usually

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you. ↗

— Alan Bates

#feeds #i #i think #privileged #think

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#colours #elegant #feature #flight #flowers

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period. ↗

— Kathy Bates

#challenge #character #different #different kind #empathy

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented. ↗

— Kathy Bates

#been #characters #fit #i #myself

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#commonly #interaction #language #only #side

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#fact #fear #hastens #in fact #make

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#further #impact #internal #matter #object

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#change #claim #does #future #history

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#advisable #attributes #expect #interactions #least