#doin

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#chosen #doing #films #love #maybe

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#cheek #company #david #doing #done

I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#always #anything #because #been #concerned

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#come #comedies #damaged #doing #easily

Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#fun #liberating #movie #myself #plus

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#better #better things #doing #how #lead

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#acquainted #after #aware #been #changes

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively. ↗

— John Pomfret

#effectively #had #i #journalism #just

The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me. ↗

— John Pomfret

#came #different #doing #down #factions

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#countries #doing #european #european countries #even