“I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.” ChildrenAgeWantedYoungActorsParentActingCareersPathFieldsMinesUnderstoodIndianSupportiveYoung Age Author:Archie Panjabi
“In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.” DiesCultureSpaceActingAirHavensFieldsJudgingListeningTasksEternityAbsolutesInfiniteForgivingDuesBreathePlanningFiniteContingencyOpen Spaces Author:Eugen Drewermann
“If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!” IfsShouldYearsHumansArtSoulFormActorsForgetEffortActingMistakeSpecialFieldsShould HaveTwentiesLaysAgingBottomTheatreTechniqueMediumsDespiteCertaintyThirtyMovieVisualsAlasHuman SoulTheatricalThirty YearsConcentratingMy MistakesEmployingExponents Author:Eleanora Duse
“I realized that after finding this thing that allowed me to express myself - acting - and being encouraged by a few people that I could do it, I had kind of grabbed onto it and dug in my claws in a way that was maybe a bit unhealthy. I allowed myself to get into a headspace where I lived or died by what I achieved in this particular field.” PeopleWayKindBitsActingFieldsParticularFindingsDiedI RealizedUnhealthyClaws Author:Andrew Garfield
“When I'm acting, I have zero control, and it's the scariest thing anyone can do in that field because, you know, your face is always the one that's out there in front of the camera, and any number of things can happen to you once you've done your work. It can be edited badly, it can be distributed badly, or it can not be distributed at all. And I've certainly experienced that; every actor has.” KnowsDoneHappensFacesActorsCan DoNumbersActingFrontsFieldsCamerasWorking ItZeroYour FaceCan NotEdited Author:Amber Tamblyn
“Although I did end up trying out several different fields before committing to acting, I knew in the deepest part of heart that I wanted to be an actress.” TryingHeartDifferentEndsWantedActingFieldsActresses Author:Gina Holden
“I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most difficult careers to create for yourself, I must be insane to embark on creating two careers in two of the most difficult fields. But I have really different ambitions with music; I just want to stay in love with music. I want it to continue to be a means of expression for me that feels like it's mine, and something that feels community-based.” WantFeelsWellsMeanTwoDifferentDifficultCommunityActingCareersFieldsMinesExpressionAmbitionCreatingInsaneAmbivalence Author:Lola Kirke
“Fashion was very important to me because I could practice my acting skills, I could practice working with the camera, I could work with amazing photographers. It just gave me a different field of work.” ImportantDifferentActingPracticeFashionFieldsSkillsCamerasPhotographer Author:Sergei Polunin