“I'm one of those pathetic actors who will say yes to every play reading just because I do miss the stage so much. What I really miss about the theater is that in the end, it's yours to give. In television and film, it's yours to do and someone else's to take and someone else's to give. As much as I love television - the biggest luxury of all is to know that you have a job to go to - I do miss that connection and having that power over my own performance on stage.” KnowsGivingEndsPlayJobsFilmReadingActorsMy OwnStageMissingTelevisionConnectionsPerformancesTheaterLuxuryPathetic Author:Julianna Margulies
“I always try to bring a little bit of my own personality to the character, or some sort of personal connection makes it a little bit more of an organic portrayal and the audience can kind of maybe believe it a little bit more. But I always look for something to kind of connect with and identify with, or bring something of myself to the table.” TryingBelieveLooksKindLittlesCharacterBitsMy OwnAudiencePersonalityLittle BitConnectionsTablesPortrayalPersonal ConnectionMy Own Personality Author:Mark Wahlberg
“My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.” ThinkingWayReligiousMy OwnRolesConnectionsPersonal Connection Author:Amber Tamblyn
“Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.” WayFeelsTryingPersonsHas BeensMomentsShowsBodyHandsOrderMy OwnTakenConnectionsPhotographerSnapshots Author:Richard Avedon
“To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope with my own poems that the reader feels a connection, soul to soul, that'll help us all feel a little less alone on the planet. And it does have the power to direct change. A writer can make the word 'dark' be something positive. You can relieve a word like 'hysterical' of its misogynistic implications. You can make the language your own. That's what poetry is about.” FeelsLittlesPersonsDoeSoulHelpingLanguageDarkMy OwnPlanetsReaderDirectConnectionsPoetry IsImplicationsWhisperingHysterical Author:Rita Dove
“Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.” PeopleMeanSometimesReadingMy OwnDealsShareMediaSingingConnectionsBasesRelateUpsetLife ExperienceNegativityMy Own LifeHopes And Fears Author:James Blunt
“Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.” ChildrenMy OwnBoysGrowingConnectionsGrowing Children Author:Sam Trammell
“God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.” IfsKnowsMayPersonsNextWorkMy OwnCallingAngelConnectionsCommittedMissionsChainsThis LifeLinksPreacherCommandmentsDefiniteGreat Work Author:John Henry Newman
“What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.” WayFeelsChildrenSelfEarthLife IsSpiritThreeCommunityMy OwnAnimalAlivePlanetsAreasConnectionsVery GoodConnectedColleaguesNurturingConnectednessInner ChildRelationships With OthersFostering Author:Alanis Morissette
“Maybe I'm too close to the two Democrats to be against either one. I went to law school with Barack Obama and worked in the Clinton White House, so I have connections and allegiances to both candidates. [...] But I cannot remain silent any longer while my own senator destroys the Democratic Party, and her own reputation, in a desperate and degrading effort to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It's time for Senator Clinton to act like a leader that I know she can be. Hillary Clinton not only needs to defend Barack Obama, she needs to apologize to him.” KnowsNeedsTwoSchoolLawHouseMy OwnWhitePartyCommonEffortLeaderConnectionsDemocraticSilentClintonDemocratReputationBarackAppealsCandidatesDesperateWhite HouseApologizingSenatorsLowestDemocratic PartyAllegianceLaw SchoolDegradingCommon DenominatorLowest Common Denominator Author:Keith Boykin
“It's very rare that you get to play a character over the course of so many films. Bella meant a lot to me and she will always be such a formative event in my career. I grew up with her and she and I have been on this great journey together. I also see many parallels between her evolution and my own because I lived through so many things along the way while playing Bella and having this connection to so many people involved in making the films over the years. It would be impossible for me to separate my world from Bella's.” PeopleWorldWayYearsHas BeensPlayCharacterWould BeTogetherFilmCoursesMy OwnCareersImpossibleJourneyEventsGrewEvolutionInvolvedGrew UpConnectionsParallelsGreat JourneysJourney Together Author:Kristen Stewart
“I'm always going to hear people make that connection and I've just accepted it. It's alright. I'm just happy that I get to do my own thing now. I learned a lot from the show [the Voice] as far as being in the TV world and being in front of the camera, which is really great because I'm not as nervous in front of the camera as I was before.” PeopleWorldShowsVoiceMy OwnFrontsTvsConnectionsCamerasAcceptedNervousReally GreatAlright Author:Melanie Martinez
“I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.” ThinkingNeedsMy OwnFiguresConnectionsGood Words Author:Gregory Crewdson
“I think there is, not in the sense that I enjoy it, but that it's an important question. It's the question, "Does the presence of pain mean God doesn't care? Does God not love me anymore?" I think that's a very common connection we tend to make. I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.” ThinkingMeanDoeImportantCarePainEnjoyMy OwnCommonConnectionsMy Own LifeLives Of OthersImportant Questions Author:Max Lucado
“Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.” KnowsFeelsReasonMy OwnConsciousnessConnections Author:Zadie Smith
“I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my labor because I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn't think about my own pain... We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenPainStrongFeltSoundMy OwnTalkingSawsHappenedDoorsCrazyCommunicationBabyMonthsLaborConnectionsHeavyEightMotherhoodTinyMy ChildrenPushingVery StrongInfantContractionsStrong ConnectionPushing Through Author:Beyonce Knowles