“That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone mainstream.” IfsMenCountryActorsNamesStarsDancerMainstreamSuspicion Author:Cesar Romero
“I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.” SaidCountryMightJobsActorsDifficultPresidentIssuesHeardMetsLovelyRefugee Author:Angelina Jolie
“The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.” CountryActorsActingStageTheaterCitizenshipPassports Author:Vanessa Redgrave
“Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from a complete history of his country during the long period in which he was the most prominent actor.” WritingLongCountryCharacterActorsPeriodsCompassGrandeurProminent Book:The life of George Washington Source: The life of George Washington
“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsSaidCountrySchoolYoungSongActorsFoundVoiceCitiesAirSeaProgramFolksRadioGrandmotherIntroducingSailorCrackedFolk MusicGreat CountryYoung ActorsBanjosYour GrandmotherFolk Songs Author:Pete Seeger
“That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.” PeopleKnowsWorldCountryAbleActorsAudience Author:Elisabeth Harnois
“with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry - California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one is a poor prune.” PeopleWritingCountryFactsGirlActorsPoorTwentiesInstinctDinnerBackgroundsArtisticCaliforniaQueensBreakfastTwenty OneWriting PoetryPageantCarnivalsPrunesFiestaRare Beauty Author:Inez Haynes Irwin