A Quotes
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“Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“Actors! They travel the world and all they see is a mirror.”
“Actors' careers are random with a capital "R."”
“Actors, after all, dream.”
“Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.”
“Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.”
“Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.”
“Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.”
“Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man
“Actors, producers and directors have a responsibility. My personal pledge, since I became a mother 12 years ago, is that I won't be in any project my daughter can't watch. I'm trying to prepare her for the world.”
“Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.”
“Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.”
“Actors, they come and go, you know.”
“Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.”
“Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.”
“Actors, who invest a lot of time and energy, will never put down each other. Every one of us has their own space in the industry. These stories are either publicity mechanisms or someone just writes them to create a controversy.”
“Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor, to like yourself— self-love isn’t easy to come by for most of us— but you must learn to trust who you are. There is no one else like you.”
Source: Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
“Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.”
“Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.”
“Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.”
“Actresses are kind of a little crazy.”
“Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.”
“Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.”
“Actresses are required to perform the epitome of a certain type of femininity.”
“Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!”
“Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.”
“Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?”
“Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.”
“Actresses generally arent allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isnt considered as versatile.”
“Actresses get stupid questions asked of them all the time, like, ‘How do you stay sexy?’ or ‘What’s your sexiest quality?’ All these ridiculous things you would never ask a man.”
“Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.”
“Actresses talking about characters they’ve played often use the phrase “strong woman”, which kind of irks me. Firstly, the description appears to be reserved for two kinds of female: the gun-toting chick in tiny-vest-and-shorts combo, or the tough-talking businesswoman who secretly longs for a man to bring out her softer side. So obviously, our idea of strength is pretty narrow and one-dimensional. Secondly, why isn’t Brad Pitt ever asked about how much he enjoys playing a “strong man”? Is it automatically assumed that men’s roles will be complex and interesting?”
Source: The Princess Guide to Life
“Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.”
Source: The Complete Cynic
“Acts 10:38 says, “See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good.” He just got up every day and did good. Everywhere he went, even though he had a purpose and he was headed somewhere, he let himself be interrupted by the needs of people. So often we study the steps of Jesus. Maybe we need to study the stops of Jesus. The things that he stopped for, the things that interrupted his plan, where he would alter his plan and help somebody here and there.”
“Acts 17:25
Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;”
“Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.”
“Acts committed in the heat of passion as much as acts of heartfelt compassion have the power to disenchant”
Source: Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World
“Acts don't mean anything. Acts do not matter--you,your awareness, your being conscious,mindful, is what matters. What you do is not the concern.”
Source: Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
“Acts done without faith may restore faith.”
Source: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
“Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.”
Source: The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy
“Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.”
“Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.”
“Acts of civil disobedience were neither the sheer lawlessness of criminals nor the rejection of law itself by anarchists and terrorists. Instead, in civil disobedience, Hannah Arendt saw how the moral act of individual conscience—I cannot live with myself if I consent to this—could sometimes also become a political act. Civil disobedience happens when people are not heard and when a significant number of people see that their government is clearly heading in a lawless direction. The civil disobedient, Arendt said, acts in the name and for the sake of a group; he defies the law and the established authorities on the ground of basic dissent. The civil disobedient is not lawless, she is acting together with others precisely in the spirit of the laws—breathing together, Arendt says.”
Source: We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac with Essays on Conservation from Round River
“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac
“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.”
“Acts of incivility against a person defending a faceless machine, beginning the slow decline of social interaction in the industrial age.”
Source: The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital
“Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.”
“Acts of Kindness:
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Acts of kindness are the physical demonstration of compassion, an internal feeling.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety