#acting

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#after #angeles #fell #graduation #i

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention. ↗

— Venus Williams

#attention #center #even #i #i do

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse. ↗

— Thomas Wilson

#anyone #anything #being #hired #i

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#attracts #people #shy #shy people

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#ago #always #finished #happened #happening

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#art #art

...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ... ↗

— John Geddes

#interior-dialogue #mirror-to-nature #refracting #shakespeare #writing-process

I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#best #best friend #enough #friend #fully

Everything is acting. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#everything

I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity. ↗

— James Lafferty

#backgrounds #biggest #both #character #competitive