#acting

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia. ↗

— Vittorio Gassman

#actor #character #disease #far #his

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer. ↗

— Melissa George

#act #acting #after #along #any

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#heartbreak #in-the-seven-woods #loss #love #never-give-all-the-heart

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.' ↗

— Bill Skarsgard

#being #country #family #fourth #guess

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting. ↗

— Holliday Grainger

#acting #analyze #novels #plays #relevant

It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have. ↗

— Kelly Hu

#about #acting #because #being #depending

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. ↗

— John Hurt

#business #essence #game #me #other

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. ↗

— William Hurt

#bring #closer #help #i #i think

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#anymore #back #baseball #bring #caps

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging. ↗

— David Krumholtz

#conversations #crazy #encouraging #father #found