“Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.” ActorsPlayerFootballFootball Player Author:Ryan McPartlin
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.” MenWorldActorsLiteratureFriendshipActingRolesPlayerStageHe ManCivilizationMen And WomenTheatreBirthdaySonnetYou Like ItEntrancesClergymenMedieval WarBardsMost MemorableSchool PlaysStage ActorsTheatre ActingStage PlayTheatre ActorsPoetry By Famous PoetsMetaphors Of LifeStage ActingBest LiteratureRotten ApplesNever Been KissedEmpty Stage Author:William Shakespeare
“Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.” PeopleHeartSoulSeemsSchoolUsedActorsActingAudiencePlayerPerformancesAimMovedProfessionGhostUsed To BeReviewsComplimentBuriedStakesCrossroads Author:David Mamet
“All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.” I CanSelfActorsCan DoCompanyPlayerIdentityJokesTheaterCertaintyVarietyPermanentUnwillingTroupe Author:Philip Roth
“To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.” MenEyeActorsPlayerFootballFameResponsibleFaultsAffairTriumphFeminineLove AffairLuminousPrestigeFootball PlayerOratorsHazeAviator Author:Andre Maurois
“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.” IdeasSchoolLawActorsSportsHurtCitiesPlayerSonBrokenGrewDadBasketballGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolBaseballRaisedMy DadBonesCoachesNo IdeaTexasCampsRoyalCollarsCardinalsBaseball PlayerKansasBasketball CoachArkansasKansas CityGot HurtTraining Camp Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.” PeopleKnowsActorsPlayerTalentLike YouDeterminationLuckCardsPreparationDrive And Determination Author:Shia LaBeouf