#art

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it. ↗

— John Glover

#cause #cigarette #determine #difficult #fires

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#actor #fund #i #managed #mindset

Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects. ↗

— Danny Glover

#actor #african #before #bring #course

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day. ↗

— Danny Glover

#always #been #concept #country #day

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part. ↗

— John Glover

#artist #come #get #go #hard

Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun. ↗

— John Glover

#excuse #grounding #hands #pun #putting

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#because #bird #butterfly #characteristic #his

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play. ↗

— Joe Morton

#certain #determination #i #made #many

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#artist #does #doing #help #himself

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#branches #break #dead #green #leaves