#acting

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#almost #antidote #aspect #concept #emotion

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors. ↗

— Vincent H. O'Neil

#directing #mystery #playwriting #theater #writing

Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#art #humanity #truth #art

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. ↗

— Anne Baxter

#devil #distracting #duty #home #idleness

Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination. ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #creativity #imagination #inspiration #writing

Life is a means of extracting fiction. ↗

— Robert Stone

#fiction #life #life is a #means

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#america #decision #hungary #profession

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting. ↗