#so

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles. ↗

— Brad Dourif

#actor #always #am #attach #central

I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences. ↗

— Brad Dourif

#classically #formally #good #good people #had

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes. ↗

— Brad Dourif

#artists #camera #director #film #goes

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#comes #ideas #just #moments #notes

Every solution breeds new problems. ↗

— Arthur Bloch

#every #new #problems #solution

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. ↗

— Rita Dove

#country #even #found #i #immensely

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#decision #make #really #something #vocation

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#directing #involved #layers #process #something

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#back #bring #everything #experience #i

I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses. ↗

— Chris Kyle

#awareness #deploy #family #go #hardships