#magi

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#i #magician #me #people

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. ↗

— Philip Guston

#archaic #brains #forms #hands #heart

I imagine people might look at me and think 'Oh, she has been single-mindedly working on her career all these years and those family issues have fallen by the wayside', but that is absolutely not the case. ↗

— Savannah Guthrie

#absolutely not #been #career #case #fallen

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #certain #day #drown #every

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. ↗

— Miguel Ferrer

#competent #easier #good #i #i think

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#anything #asked #comedian #doing #else

I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

#day #excited #films #finally #i

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#black #different #greater #i #imagine

No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#comfortable #feet #hate #having #hear

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents. ↗

— Joan Chen

#asian #children #decent #having #into