#acting

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#digging #ditch #entire #entire world #far

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bathed #contradictory #experience #extracting #find

Acting is a form of confusion. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#confusion #form

Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#complicity #director #even #help #manipulation

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#after #camera #doing #else #front

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#fancy #focusing #i #i think #kind

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#actually #dancer #exotic #i #out

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way. ↗

— Summer Altice

#be yourself #different #different things #easy #escapism

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#acting #going #high #high school #i

I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#actor #as far as #because #comedy #considered