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“Most actors are socialists, aren't they?”

“Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.”

Writing Actors Acting Roles Walking Evidence Starving Flashlights

Author:Dylan McDermott

“Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.”

People Thinking May Littles Actors Lines Policy Higher Sells Passionate Very Deep Ratios Insurance Policy

Author:Greg Kinnear

“Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.”

Jobs Actors Grateful Fantastic Be You Looking For A Job

Author:Brian d'Arcy James

“Most actors can't make any kind of living.”

Kind Actors

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.”

Actors Grows Parent Growing Up Sweet Vanilla

Author:Nadia Bjorlin

“Most actors don't know what they're going to do next, so you get into this thing where you have to force yourself to have another life outside of acting. And then, as soon as you start something in this sort of normal life that you're trying to live, you get a job. So you have this constant struggle because you want to be able to commit to things and to finish things in your life, but then you also want to be able to act.”

Knows Want Trying Able Jobs Next Actors Force Acting Struggle Normal Constant Commit Normal Life Another Life Constant Struggle

Author:Winona Ryder

“Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.”

Actors Directors Sensibility

Author:Jodie Foster

“Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Art Form Actors Given Acting Roles Lucky Majors Percent Window Profession Crafts Awards Broadway Percentages Academy Unemployed Nominations Academy Awards

Author:Viola Davis

“Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job.”

Way Feels Jobs Actors Grateful One Way

Author:Sean William Scott

“Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.”

Love Fall Actors Directors Falling In Love Scripts I Fall In Love

Author:Sam Worthington

“Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.”

Giving Firsts Whole Shows Together Hate Actors Ready Exposing Edited

Author:Andrew Davies

“Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.”

Film Hate Actors Mistake Tricks Tick

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“Most actors have a process that they can go through, that they rely on, or that they've discovered, and that can evolve from project to project.”

Actors Process Projects Evolve Rely

Author:Thomas Jane

“Most actors have been fired during their career.”

Has Beens Actors Careers

Author:Robert Morse

“Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them?”

Thinking Want Needs I Can Actors Stuff Waiting Hollywood Phones Auditions Proactive

Author:Ice Cube

“Most actors love to get to the point where they're not auditioning.”

Actors

Author:Rockmond Dunbar

“Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.”

Actors Mistake Graves Unhappy Sanity Insisting Normalcy

Author:Michael Shurtleff

Source: Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

“Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.”

Young Actors Terrible Models Young Actors

Author:Ansel Elgort

“Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.”

Thinking Actors Worthy

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's 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.”

Thinking Want Facts Actors Interesting Acting Scripts Nonsense Pretentious Often Is

Author:Hugh Grant

“Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.”

Kind Actors Audience Fronts Training

Author:David Carradine

“Most actors try to do as many different things as possible. I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance. And you have to keep tapping new parts of yourself, keep working or you never improve. The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.”

Way Feels Trying Littles I Can Different Actors Energy Bits Goal Little Bit Performances Encouragement Harder Scared Different Things New Things Tapping

Author:Joanne Whalley

“Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.”

Want Actors Materials Teeth

Author:Emmanuelle Chriqui

“Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.”

Knows Want Jobs Actors Figures Tvs What You Want

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.”

Play Actors Interesting Villain Most Interesting

Author:Rob James-Collier

“Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.”

Dream Actors

Author:Colin Firth

“Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes six months - the rest of us have to jump around to make ends meet.”

Focus Movie Star Big Movie

Author:Richard Schiff

“Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.”

Self Courage Risk Protest Humiliation Readiness

Author:Nigel Dennis

Source: A Sea Change

“Most ads are about the product or the company that makes it...the best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life.”

Company Products Customers Ads

Author:Roy H. Williams

“Most ads are ignored because every customer has a mental filter that evaluates and dismisses both of these languages of Ad-Speak with a single question: What are they not telling me?”

Speak Language Customers Ads Ignored Evaluate Filters

Author:Roy H. Williams

“Most adult geniuses are more playful than most children.”

Play Serious Genius Stoicism Seriousness Childlike Playfulness Playful Geniuses Take Life Seriously

Author:@Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most adults are adults all over except between their ears.”

Adults Experience Maturity Mature Adulthood Immature Adult Immaturity Childish Underdevelopment

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.”

“Most adults don't sing anymore. We have to break that, and start singing the name of the Almighty One, try to cultivate the emotions. We have to elevate our emotions to the maximum, to the limit, and that then turns into spiritual bliss.”

Trying Spiritual Turns Names Emotion Break Limits Singing Yoga Adults Bliss Almighty Maximum

Author:Dharma Mittra

“Most adults get to a point in their careers where they feel secure, where they have a body of work behind them that will ensure longevity, and for actors, it's just not like that. You're basically always a temp, going from job to job.”

Longevity

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Most adults have dropped out of the school of life before they reached adulthood.”

School Adults Experience Adult Experienced University Of Life School Of Life Dropout Experience Is The Best Teacher Most Adults

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.”

Childhood Adults Forgotten

Author:Mark Vonnegut

Source: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

“Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.”

Knows Kids Internet Adults Google Session

Author:Fred Wilson

“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”

Children Play Childhood Serious Adults Stoicism Seriousness Adult Playfulness Playful

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of treating their adolescent child like a nonperson. . . . Adolescents deserve the same civility their parents routinely extend to total strangers.”

Thinking Children Dream Parent Adults Deserve Stranger Bullying Adolescence Civility Humiliating Belittle

Author:Laurence Steinberg

Source: You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25

“Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.”

Knows Children Book Literature Differences Adults Sunday Afternoon Rainy Sunday Afternoons Rainy Sunday

Author:Mark Haddon

“Most advice is sought after one has already decided on something so to provide real, genuine advice you run the risk of being an alarmist, intrusive, and/or rude.”

Philosophy Advice Future Self Awareness Decisions Decision Making Self Reflection Dtdsundays Alarmist Deepthinkingdaily

Author:Cic Mellace

“Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.”

Ifs Way Giving Children Made Ideas Certain Parent Opinion Advice Comfort Conviction Neighbor Experts Insecure Opposing Child Rearing Neighbors Friends

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“Most affairs do die a natural death. Today, you look at your partner's phone to find out the weather, and you find out about a lover. It has never been as easy to cheat as it is today, and it has never been harder to keep a secret.”

Today Easy Natural Secret Lovers Affair Cheat

Author:Esther Perel

“Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.”

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.”

Men Interesting Accepting Generations He Man Men And Women African American Racist My Generation Gambit

Author:Anthony Braxton

“Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.”

Ifs Years Firsts Choices Left Given Justice Chance Diversity Social Justice Chosen African American Colony Given A Chance Mayflower Jamestown

Author:Clarence Page

Source: Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

“Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.”

Mean Wife Taught Depends Husband Endure Endurance Empowered Abusive Good Wife Abusive Relationship African Women

Author:Joyce Banda

“Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.”

Animal Environment Involved Wild Animal

Author:Jane Goodall

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