“To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.” PeopleMindMatterCharacterActionForgetActingLaughingMinutesShapesDirectorsAbsolutesRelateConcentrationSnapsGiggle Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was 'Beowulf' because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you're fighting a dragon or whatever.” TryingDreamJobsFightingImaginationActingImaginePureAbsolutesDragonsFavouriteScorsese Author:Ray Winstone
“In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.” DiesCultureSpaceActingAirHavensFieldsJudgingListeningTasksEternityAbsolutesInfiniteForgivingDuesBreathePlanningFiniteContingencyOpen Spaces Author:Eugen Drewermann
“I just wanted to perform. I just wanted to perform in whatever capacity, whether it was acting, singing, dancing, comedy - whatever it was, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people.” PeopleWantedFeltActingComedySingingCapacityAbsolutesDancingPerformingSinging Dancing Author:James Corden
“Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.” ActingViolenceAbsolutesRegimesColonialismAbsolute Power Author:Nigel Gibson
“I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.” WorldDoneActingLordMinutesHonestEarsAbsolutesBlueScreensRingsBeing HonestAnother WorldGrandioseScorseseVideogameProsthetics Author:Cate Blanchett
“Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].” MayIdeasRealityLastsActingConsciousnessProgressStageDevelopmentEgoIllusionShadowAbsolutesSeriesAwakeningScalesPlanesPerceiveDelusionBelongingProgressiveMaya Illusion Book:An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine Source: An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine
“It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth” IfsInspirationalMotivationalActorsDifficultActingImpossibleDemandHappeningsAbsolutesCamerasInstrumentsGet AwaySeverePenetrateAbsolute Truth Book:Elia Kazan: A Life Source: Elia Kazan: A Life
“This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.” IfsWholeDarkActingTomorrowShotsToolsAbsolutesNailsBeltsHammersBanging Author:Matt LeBlanc
“We frequently may press forward hoping and praying—but without absolute assurance—that we are acting in accordance with God’s will. But as we honor our covenants and keep the commandments, as we strive ever more consistently to do good and to become better, we can walk with the confidence that God will guide our steps.” MayWalksActingStepsPrayingHonorAbsolutesPressesStriveGuidesGods WillConsistentlyCommandmentsAssuranceCovenant Author:David A. Bednar