#acting

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#acting #actually #character #i #insecurities

When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#because #books #bubble #funny #golf

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#began #better #book #commence #down

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #attracting #best-educated #exciting #factor

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#huge #i #i think #much #part

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#acting #actually #always #attention #big

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#acting #actress #became #fact #first

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#being #experience #general #just #kind

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right. ↗

— Stuart Townsend

#get #great #life #right #spend

The big secret in acting is listening to people. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#big #big secret #listening #people #secret