#actor

I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#being #college #creative #creative writing #francisco

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#good #good actor #i #makes #me

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#always #charge #cheques #everything #film-making

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn. ↗

— Kieran Culkin

#best #best way #good #good actor #learn

Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#china #competitiveness #costs #education #factors

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen. ↗

— James Spader

#afford #artistic #best #between #choose

The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#best #concerned #demands #factor #going

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#full #future #idealised #in fact #notion

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#bored #doctor #get #kind #like

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#i #i do #me #meet #opportunity