Inspiration -- Theater Quotes Dont be afraid to go out on a limb. Its where all the fruit is. -Shirley Maclaine “Failure doesnt kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.” -Kevin Costner “If theres any message to my work, it is ultimately that its OK to be different, that its good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.” -Johnny Depp “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”- Oscar Wilde Acting is not about being famous, its about exploring the human soul. -Annette Bening “I certainly believe that being in contact with ones spirit and nurturing ones spirit is as important as nurturing ones body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.” -Laurence Fishburne A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. -Lee Strasberg “The only thing worse than an opportunity you dont deserve is blowing an opportunity.” -Michael J. Fox “Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.” -William H. Macy “I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan. “ -Jackie Chan “Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.” -Kelsey Grammer “In every person we meet theres this little piece of God in them and thats who you talk to. And thats the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If its not good, if its not love, you walk away from it.” -Terrence Howard Acting is the ability to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances. -Stanford Meisner “Lets face it, we were all once 3-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.” -Meryl Streep I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it. -Salma Hayek “Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can effect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.” -Ozzie Davis “There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.” -Sean Connery. “Theyre either going to fire you or theyre not. They can only fire you. Thats all they can do. They cant take your thumbs.” -Ron Livingston “Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.” -Jackie Chan “I just try to try to keep an attitude that I dont know what Im doing. Not to the point where Im beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.” -Tobey Macguire “Most actors really love it, thats what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so theyll read a script and think, thats an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is. “ -Hugh Grant “The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.” -Keanu Reeves You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.” -Robert De Niro “I dream for a living.” -Steven Spielberg “I love what I do for a living, its the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you dont truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and Im always trying to balance that with what is really important.” -Tom Hanks “Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and its more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.” -James Franco “I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.” -Robert Downey Jr. I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine. -Jeffrey Wright “The only thing that you owe the public is a good performance.” -Humphrey Bogart “If you dont have enemies, you dont have character.” -Paul Newman Dont think for a moment that Im really like any of the characters Ive played. Im not. Thats why its called acting. -Leonardo DiCaprio “Dont give up. Dont lose hope. Dont sell out.” -Christopher Reeves “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. “-Will Smith “Ive never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - its just a question of finding the subject.”-Clint Eastwood I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have? -Kathleen Turner Im going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I dont want to spend my life wasting my time. If its a big movie, I want to do it. If its a small movie, I want to do it. -Jake Gyllenhaal “Freedom is such a gift.” -Ryan Gosling Man is what he believes -Anton Chekhov “So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.” -Sarah Jessica Parker “Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.” -Morgan Freeman. “Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne Lots of people want to ride with you in the Limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the Limo breaks down. -Oprah Winfrey I think its important to create projects as an actor rather than wait for them. I love being able to take an idea and sell it to a studio. -Queen Latifah “I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. Im just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.” -Ryan Gosling “When youre young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And thats the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you youre a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.” -George Clooney “If you are just safe about the choices you make, you dont grow.” -Heath Ledger “I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, theyre going to go and see the story youre in.” -Morgan Freeman “My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. Id hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.” -Jack Nicholson “So if we have anything original to offer, its to speak from our own life about the society were in. -Sean Penn “I dont have to do the lead. If I dig a part, Ill do it.” -Kevin Bacon “Ive made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if youre bored. The boredom will show in your work.” -Benjamin Bratt Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No ones being nice enough to me! -Kate Beckinsale
Posted on: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:55:10 +0000
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