#essentially

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#approach #comedy #commit #doing #drama

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity. ↗

— Tina Fey

#around #became #could #essentially #fifth

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way. ↗

— Barry Corbin

#car #day #down #eight #essentially

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#concrete #consist #essentially #existing #only

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#back #brings #dilemma #essentially #every

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#essentially #everyone #fact #guilty #himself

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally. ↗

— Susan George

#century #democracy #essentially #faced #get

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ↗

— Hermione Gingold

#fighting #her #idea #masculine #tongue

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey. ↗

— Michael Gough

#back #donkey #end #essentially #i

My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me. ↗

— Christopher Judge

#called #dinner #essentially #fierce #had