#act

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#being #biggest #creative #creative ways #enjoy

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. ↗

— John Morley

#character #climb #his #limitations #man

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular. ↗

— John Morley

#act #any #general #improvement #mankind

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#acting #career #changed #everything #having

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#because #bleeding #ever #find #form

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#body needs #i #impact #just #lost

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#accustomed #act #anger #crying #cult thing

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#angels #being #complicated #demons #edge

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them. ↗

— Chris Morris

#character #comic #expect #hate #heinous

The non-comic, factual explanation is that I felt there was a myth about terrorist bombers being medieval-minded, 'fundamentalist, primitivist' people. There seems to be a lot of evidence to contradict that, especially in Britain. Some of the ideology behind what has become modern jihadism was socially progressive, certainly in Egypt, for example. ↗

— Chris Morris

#become #behind #being #bombers #britain