“My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.” ThinkingArtistActorsOpinionMy Favorite Author:Josh Peck
“When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.” KindUseArtistActorsDraws Author:Josh Peck
“With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous parts. Normally, if you're not an actor or some crazy artist, you don't feel the need to run around in those areas. You keep them separate because it's painful.” IfsNeedsFeelsSoulRunningArtistActorsCausesLaughingCrazyDangerousDramaAreasPainfulYour SoulRecess Author:Josh Peck
“I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.” WorldFirstsArtistActorsFashionMetsMusicianCampaignsIgnorantTrickySportsmanBurberry Author:Eddie Redmayne
“I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.” PeopleThinkingArtistActorsLevelsSpecialEastChicagoSensibilityCoastMidwestEast CoastConfluenceSpecial People Author:Daniel Sunjata
“Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.” KnowsHumansKindArtistActorsCreativityKnow HowHuman NatureDirectorsMusicianTendenciesTrendsPredictionsGreat ArtChordsGreat ArtistPrevailingAmenable Author:Maurice Saatchi
“MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.” PeopleWorldArtArtistActorsFashionIndustryInvolvedMusicianMtvArt WorldFashion Industry Author:Karlie Kloss
“The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.” ReasonFactsArtistActorsAgents Author:Morgan Freeman
“The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.” WayDoneJobsFilmArtistActorsOpportunityBecomingHollywoodMediumsAffectedGood JobCablesRecessionsRobustPlumsFilm Actors Author:Omari Hardwick
“Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!” MomentsArtistActorsLosesTalkingPerformances Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.” ThinkingKnowsArtistActorsNamesActingPiecesStageWho You AreTheatre Author:Clinton D. Powell
“Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.” WellsAbleArtistOrderActorsSuccessfulMusicianPainterAll TimeBeing SuccessfulGreat Artist Author:Lady Gaga
“In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.” PeopleLittlesMatterPlayFilmFormArtistActorsOpportunityIndividualTermInterestViewsAttitudeResponsibilityStageImportanceFolksScreensTraditionalPerformersScenariosPrevailingPortrayal Author:Paul Robeson
“A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.” PeopleArtistActorsViewsHollywoodAbuseSellsPoint Of ViewBackgroundsFearful Author:Roseanne Barr
“I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.” WritingArtistActorsPayCreativeDirectorsZeroTributeCreative ArtCreative Artists Author:Clint Eastwood
“I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.” YearsFirstsArtArtistActorsStageStudentsPoetMovedUniversityI RealizedCaliforniaPerformersDeafFestivalsSigningMoved OnInterpretingInterpreterCoordinatingI Moved On Author:Jack Jason
“If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.” IfsThinkingWorldDoeJobsArtistActorsGoalHollywoodBunchFilmmakerDecentDisagreeHacksBad MoviesBest Artist Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. Thats double happiness.” I CanActionTogetherArtistFightingActorsRolesWorking TogetherMartial ArtsMartial Artist Author:Mark Dacascos
“For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.” PeopleYearsDifferentFormArtistActorsOpportunityActingStyleColorExcitingExcitementUnstoppableDifferent Colors Author:Kirk Cameron
“Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.” PeopleArtistActorsGrowsCuttingTheaterLensesMarketplace Author:Ralph Waite
“Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.” ArtistActorsDifferencesTemperTemperament Book:The lonely life: an autobiography Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musician. It becomes this thing where somehow your art can no longer exist on its own and be multifaceted.” ThinkingArtPoliticalArtistActorsIdentityMusicianStem Author:Carrie Brownstein
“I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or hidden camera or parody. Kind of slap it in a movie with hip-hop artists and actors, comedians and girls. I just want to do something fun.” WorldWantKindFormArtistGirlActorsFunComedyCamerasHip HopHipsComedianHopsSlapParodyHip Hop Artist Author:Pauly Shore
“If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.” IfsWayYoungArtistFallActorsChallengesToo MuchFailingSucceedNotionCreatorPainterDecentLockedSuccess And FailureUnhealthyYoung ActorsCommunicatorsChallenge Yourself Author:Emma Thompson
“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.” ArtistFallActorsHoursMemoriesSilenceDarknessStageProduceDivinePoetMusicianEvidenceTheaterMissionsPainterCurtainsSculptors Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman
“Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.” Has BeensWantedArtistActorsProudInvolvedAbsolutesCulmination Author:Jim Beaver
“I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.” WantMeanWholeArtistActorsWhole Life Author:Ansel Elgort