“I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.” CharacterFilmFacesChoicesInterestingCuttingProjectsMajorsTheaterFlagsDollsAmerican Flag Author:Amanda Plummer
“My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.” CharacterHappensChoicesActorsLevelsRolesWonderfulTvsProjectsTheaterSeriesFinancialObviousConsistentPaychecksTv Series Author:Jim Parsons
“I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project.” ThinkingFirstsLittlesDifferentChoicesNextProjectsFirst TimeCarefulIntenseNot Sure Author:Kristanna Loken
“Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from vérité filmmaking to more archival."” WellsChoicesProjectsIntellectualDrawsMeritFilmmaking Author:Liz Garbus
“Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you're spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you're making good choices and you're not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.” WantEndsReasonChoicesActorsProjectsCarefulSpendingBe CarefulBeing RealInfluentialChoices You MakeWrong ReasonsGood ChoicesMaking Good Choices Author:Michael Cera
“When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.” ChoicesWonderProjectsRight ChoicesNew Projects Author:Jamie Bamber
“Has given me no choice but to advocate for the termination of this project.” ChoicesGivenProjectsTermination Author:Greg Nickels
“I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes are exaggerated for a theatric stage - you're on a stage you have an audience of 2500 or 3000 people: you need to project the feelings, the emotions it's heightened, and people mistake it for a personal anger but it's more dissatisfaction, disappointment and contempt for these things we've settled for.” PeopleNeedsHumansPersonsSometimesFeelingsChoicesEmotionMistakeAudienceStageProjectsFellowsAngryDisappointmentDisappointedContemptDissatisfactionExaggeratedContemptuousTheatricsAngry Person Author:George Carlin
“You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.” WorldWritingFirstsLittlesCharacterChoicesActorsGivenSubjectsDesignDirectorsProjectsCreatingPropertyProductionsStudiosProducersCostumesProduction Design Author:Rainn Wilson
“My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindI CanCharacterChoicesActorsLostDifficultTermChanceProjectsMy FavoriteObviousMysteriousCraftsPreservesAllowingSlipsPersonal LifePersonaEnigmatic Author:Scarlett Johansson
“I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.” PeopleWorldWayYearsKindLongRealMovingLawChoicesNextTermFieldsDisciplineMetsTenProjectsResearchCommitmentBuiltTraditionSeasonsMedicineCommittedLifestyleAll KindsFantasticLong TermMy TimeSincereAcademicLocationVisionariesLiving OnRigorCafeteriaLifestyle ChoicesFieldwork Author:Aleksandra Mir
“Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.” IfsChoicesHoursProjectsOur Family Author:J. J. Abrams