#acting

Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#crush #jealousy #repressing-emotions #school #jealousy

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life. ↗

— Vincent Price

#life

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that. ↗

— Elisabeth Rohm

#fall #hunger #life #love #made

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. ↗

— W.S. Gilbert

#injustice #justice #life #reality #theater

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor! ↗

— Greg Curtis

#humour #life #life

He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to observe human interaction anonymously, thereby gaining insight into the emotions on display in ordinary life--it was his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall that made him famous, and fame had destroyed his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall. ↗

— C.R. Strahan

#fame #paradox #art

Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.)" [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.] ↗

— William Shakespeare

#stage #universe #world #men

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#god #goodness #humanity #justice #kindness

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#acting

Books are the mirrors of the soul. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#metaphor #soul #acting