#laying

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character. ↗

— Haley Joel Osment

#advice #around #believing #best #character

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#hate #i #most #people #playing

Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too. ↗

— Antoinette Perry

#circle #dining #easy #go #going

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov! ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#career #challenging #chekhov #gay #jewish

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#group #important #playing #solo #sound

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. ↗

— Tom Peters

#around #building #cause #common #community

I haven't accomplished everything that I want to yet in my career, that's why I'm still playing. I just know that I still have something left inside of me to accomplish, and I don't know exactly what that is. Hopefully, I'll know one day soon. ↗

— Mary Pierce

#accomplished #career #day #everything #exactly

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting. ↗

— Danny Pintauro

#characters #get #i #interesting #more

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. ↗

— Robert Quine

#develop #i #listening #miles #miles davis

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#being #challenging #had #him #i