“I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.” ChildrenDifferentRealActorsGoneFunctionVariousAgentsOccasionsEstatesSurferDifferent LifeChild ActorsEstate Agents Author:Mike Lookinland
“When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.” ReasonFilmYoungArtistActorsSidesBalanceInvolvedFunctionFlipYoung Actors Author:James Franco
“It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.” ImportantFilmActorsFeltCausesFunctionSignificantThings To DoMovie LoveGrandioseSignificant Things Author:Charlie Hunnam
“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.” PeopleRealMomentsActorsActingAudienceImagineHappeningsFunctionReal Things Author:George Bernard Shaw
“I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.” PeopleThinkingBigsArtistActorsCircumstancesFunctionMovieBig Movie Author:Ang Lee
“I suppose in our culture - in our lifetime - we've always enjoyed people who tell it straight. We like our presidents, our comedians, and our actors to do that . . . It's funny. You say that people prefer a tasteful formalism - as opposed to an oppressive formalism - but I do feel very strongly that form follows function.” PeopleFeelsFormCultureActorsPresidentFunctionLifetimeEnjoyedComedianVery Strong Author:Oliver Stone
“If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.” IfsHomeAbleActorsActingHavensFunctionMy TimeComing HomeCowsShallow Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.” PeopleReasonHandsActorsFoundDifficultTalkingPhotographyFunctionCamerasWitnessShySubstitutes Author:Martine Franck
“As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.” BelieveLooksRealCharacterActorsCompassionEmpathyPercentFunctionCompassion And Empathy Author:Clare Bowen
“My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.” FirstsWellsStoriesActorsCoupleNeededFunctionInstinctCastsI RealizedLove StoryShort Story Author:Ang Lee
“Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.” KindActorsIndividualSocialActingRolesIdentityFunctionTheatreExaminationLaboratorySocial Roles Book:Drama, Metadrama and Perception Source: Drama, Metadrama and Perception
“It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsKindChildrenSchoolCoursesActorsActingInvolvedFunctionAccidentsMy WayLogicalManifestWay Of ThinkingCradleTheatricalAthleticsNeurosis Author:James Dean
“I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsArtFormArtistActorsViewsFunctionPaintSmellPoint Of ViewGenuinePainterFilmmakerDidacticCelluloid Author:Stanley Kubrick