#acting

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#against #before #bush #bush administration #come

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet! ↗

— Robert Duvall

#business #characters #different #different parts #diverse

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#actor #always #chair #character #craft

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#career #choosing #day #deep #died

I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#am #charity #driven #even #focus

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#going #i #maybe #me #other

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well. ↗

— Albert Finney

#again #enjoys #get #good #good time

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#behind #best #engenders #left #qualities

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other. ↗

— John Fogerty

#comes #each #interacting #music #musicians

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#actress #am #dream #enjoy #even