#act

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#amazing #barrymore #child #child actor #drew

My characters are often without a significant parental figure. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#figure #often #parental #significant #without

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#concept #conductor #course #great #great secret

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#characters #day #expect #free #get

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#blood #characters #choose #family #formed

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#algeria #beginning #capitalist #development #finally

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#been #booked #characters #chosen #did

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless? ↗

— Anne Tyler

#always #bed #cat #come #dog

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#america #class #even #fact #factor

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#backbone #behold #characters #enough #given