#acting

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I? ↗

— Stephen Rea

#am #be yourself #camera #front #i

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#enjoying #hooked #i #know #still

Acting is way of making yourself exist. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#exist #making #way #yourself

I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

#because #been #contest #diabetes #got

In acting, you draw so much on your private life. ↗

— Emmanuelle Riva

#draw #life #much #private #private life

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor. ↗

— Julian Sands

#actor #announced #become #been #bourgeoisie

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#acting #anybody #care #college #explore

On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywhere my dream needs to go. ↗

— Samantha Steele

#author #books #crazy #dream #follow

There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people! ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#actors #faith

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous. ↗

— Stephen King

#directing #musicals #plays #teens #music