#actor

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#actor #being #bit #come #hide

I became an actor because I couldn't not. ↗

— Debra Winger

#became #because #i

Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words. ↗

— Debra Winger

#else #however #script #someone #ultimately

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. ↗

— James Wolcott

#comedy #defective #episodic #explain #factory

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. ↗

— James Wolcott

#alike #bunny #candidate #consultant #crowd

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor. ↗

— Scott Wolf

#always #enamored #grow #grow up #i

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#auditioning #being #financial #great #insecurity

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#becomes #deal #films #human #human relationships

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad. ↗

— Joe Wright

#because #cameraman #dad #designer #director

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. ↗

— Steven Wright

#factory #fire #hydrant #i #near