“I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.” KnowsWorldI CanActorsWorryGayBattleBeing Gay Author:Ian Mckellen
“The casting is the most important thing. If you cast a picture really well a lot of things take care of themselves. You get actors that like to give a lot to the role and who appreciate the role on the same level that you do. If you miscast it, you're working an uphill battle a little bit and maybe you can come out okay but you can't always come out great.” IfsGivingWellsLittlesImportantCareActorsBitsLevelsRolesBattleLittle BitAppreciateOkayImportant ThingsCastsTake CareCastingUphill Battles Author:Clint Eastwood
“As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.” PeopleWantBelieveReasonMomentsStoriesActorsBattleAdmireHopefullyReason WhyDemonGratificationTelling StoriesMake Believe Author:Eric Balfour
“What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.” KnowsBodyAbleActorsKnow HowBattleComfortableSingingSittingMarkDown AndTablesDancingScreensBlockSitting DownSwagger Author:Columbus Short
“A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.” TryingSelfActorsDealsBattleConsciousTricksSelf Conscious Author:Billy Campbell
“That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.” MenWayCareLastsUniverseReadingActorsHoursEmotionMorningFireFourBattleCostThousandTreatsExcitingMurderTwentiesSuicideDivorceStrikesNewspapersThanksSensualFiftyMisfortunesTransformedStatesmenBankruptcyPoisoningCafesBlending In Author:Marcel Proust