“I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind.” PeopleIfsMindLooksKindSelfMightActingOne ThingDogExpressionIndustryDirectorsSurpriseObedientSelf ExpressionService Industry Author:Michael Shannon
“Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.” WantedActingGrowing UpGrowingIndustryMovie Industry Author:Daniella Alonso
“No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.” DoneActingWiseIndustryMy FamilyEntertainmentEntertainment Industry Author:Margot Robbie
“Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn't consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.” IfsThinkingWayYearsActorsFeltActingBehindsDoubtChangedIndustryMy WayFraudInappropriate Author:Robert Pattinson
“I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to the majority of the population in some way. Sometimes it's their looks, other times their perceived sex appeal (often in obvious defiance of their looks), and other times it is their real or imagined talent for acting, writing, painting or banging on the drums. And because people are so susceptible to flattery, there exists an entire industry made up of scam artists whose sole goal is to fleece the flatterable.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingBelieveLooksMadeRealSometimesArtistSexGoalActingSpecialTalentPaintingIndustryMajorityPopulationObviousSuperiorsAppealsCurseSoleFlatteryDefianceSusceptibleBangingSex AppealScamsFleece Author:Fay Faron
“Acting is something that I couldn't recommend to anyone because the odds of it working out are so insane. I don't know how it worked out for me. I had no connections to this industry. I had no ins anywhere.” KnowsActingKnow HowIndustryConnectionsWork OutInsaneOdds Author:Kat Dennings
“The music industry is so fickle, there's so many politics. I think a lot of people don't pay attention to the credits or the artistry no more. I think there's so much concern about what's going on right now instead of the actual artistry. But that's how the record business is, but for acting, I got that covered.” PeopleThinkingPayActingAttentionRecordsIndustryRight NowConcernCreditPay AttentionCoveredMusic IndustryArtistryFickle Author:Bow Wow
“When I started acting in the film industry when I was 16 years old, in 1980, I was going to all the revival theaters in Los Angeles. They were playing mostly films from the '60s and '70s, some from the early '20s and '30s, before that Hays commission. Those films did question things a lot, and there definitely was a switch in 1934. You can see very distinctly in 1934, it's harder to understand what the real culture was. Films made before 1934, you can really kind of see the racism, sexism, drug use, etc. that was going on at that time. And then it was all stopped.” YearsKindMadeRealUseFilmCultureActingIndustryDrugRacismHarderTheaterEtcLos AngelesSexismRevivalFilm IndustryHayDrug UseEarly 20s Author:Crispin Glover
“I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I just knew I wanted to be in this industry telling stories and doing this for a job. I thought my path was going to be as a writer, but I'm pretty happy doing it as an actor.” StoriesWantedJobsActorsGoalActingPathIndustryDirectTelling Stories Author:Jake M. Johnson
“I've been really lucky with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and feel good about myself. If for some reason one day that ends, I won't do it anymore. If I feel like I have to compromise myself to continue to be in this industry, I don't want to do that.” IfsWantFeelsBelieveI CanEndsReasonI BelieveCan DoActingIndustryOne DayLuckyI Believe InFeel GoodCompromise Author:Rashida Jones
“Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.” ArtKidsSchoolActingCuttingIndustryDramaToughLots Of Money Author:Phil Daniels
“Soaps are really like boot camp for acting. You learn about the industry, you learn about being on stage, and you learn about showing up on time. The sheer volume of work, on a daily basis, blows your mind and forces you to really work that muscle of memorization and just being able to change things on your feet.” MindAbleForceActingFeetStageIndustryBasesBlowMusclesCampsBootsVolumeJust BeingSheerSoapShowing UpBoot CampMemorization Author:Michael Graziadei
“Michael J. Copps, acting FCC chairman, has denounced the lack of racial and gender diversity in the broadcast industry as 'a shameful state of affairs.' Unsurprisingly, his proposed corrective is to force the transfer of station ownership to greater numbers of minorities, who are statistically more likely to carry liberal talk shows.” StatesShowsForceNumbersActingGreaterIndustryDiversityAffairGenderMinoritiesStationsOwnershipChairmanTransfersShamefulTalk ShowsFcc Author:David Limbaugh
“Acting is a very strange industry in that it flows in these weird ways, I'll be so busy for 6 months and then nothing for a couple months, so it's hard for me to focus and stuff.” WayHardStuffActingFocusStrangeMonthsIndustryCoupleFlowBusy Author:Alia Shawkat
“Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.” LooksArtFilmFunActingHonestIndustryFilm Industry Author:Shailene Woodley
“The one glaring issue I have with the modeling industry and the fashion industry is that there is no union for young women and when I went into acting, the way young kids are protected, there must be a mandatory union or regulation, it just has to be done.” WayDoneKidsYoungActingIssuesFashionIndustryUnionsRegulationProtectedYoung WomenModelingFashion IndustryModeling Industry Author:Jaime King
“[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.” ActingIndustryBiggerWoodsBroadsOutlookElijah Author:Samuel Barnett