“I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.” IfsKnowsPersonsEnoughYoungDesireActorsPersonalityChosenBurningBurning Desire Author:Jodie Foster
“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.” PeopleShouldArtSaidPlayWantedSchoolDesireActorsActingTeacherTalentFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAcceptedHonestlyPerformingGradesAuditionsWhimPerforming ArtsEnglish Teacher Author:Ving Rhames
“I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor.” FeelsI CanDesireActorsCan DoParticularAmountComfortable Author:Woody Allen
“Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.” MenWellsSometimesDesireActorsRolesPoetKingsFortuneGood ManBeggarGood ActorsSupporting RolesSupporting Actors Author:Bion of Borysthenes
“What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.” NeedsWritingBodyActionPainFilmDesireActorsEmotionImagineOne ThingFrontsSceneReactionsFullnessKeyboardsAction And Reaction Author:Dee Rees
“Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.” PeopleWayDesireActorsGreaterStageProveInclination Author:Alec-Tweedie
“The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.” ArtRealDesireActorsActingEmotionPleaseEssenceDramaticFacultyFeminineDefectsFacilityProvincesAssimilationArtifice Book:The Art of the Theatre Source: The Art of the Theatre
“There are different types of art, and you just have to follow where things take you. It helps me with my desire to perform live. That's something that a lot of actors and actresses don't get to experience on a regular basis.” ArtDifferentHelpingDesireActorsTypeBasesActressesHelp MeActors And Actresses Author:Natasha Leggero