“So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.” ThinkingKnowsTryingLooksLittlesPlayFilmFeltBitsActingCareersKnow HowLittle BitManageShellsShocked Author:Lea Thompson
“I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.” FeelsLittlesPersonsMadeI CanEnoughPlayCharacterGuyOpportunityGivenBitsActingBoysLittle BitGood EnoughBad GuysGood PersonPosters Author:Gucci Mane
“Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.” LittlesDoneCharacterSchoolActingTheaterIndependentAustralian Author:Jacqueline McKenzie
“I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.” ThinkingLittlesSchoolChoicesBitsActingClassSucceedLittle BitHigh SchoolMy FamilyIntelligent Author:James Gandolfini
“That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.” PeopleThinkingLittlesWould BeAbilityActingAdviceInstinctAccess Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.” LittlesActingClassTaughtScriptsTinyEricActing ClassesNicholsonMorris Author:Teri Garr
“I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.” ThinkingLittlesUseKidsImaginationActingLittle Kid Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Even when I was really young, I hated doing commercials, because I would say, "That's not real acting." And it's not. It's embarrassing what they make little kids do in commercials.” LittlesRealKidsYoungActingHatedEmbarrassingLittle Kid Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and stuff that I'm not in and really make a good run at it as a production. I'm probably going to take a break from acting after a little while because I've enjoyed the developmental process so much. It helps you as an actor to learn story and to learn how to really nurture a script and work with a writer so you're not sitting there having to write it yourself and give notes.” WantGivingWritingLittlesHelpingStoriesRunningActorsStuffProcessActingBreakTvsSittingNotesScriptsProductionsEnjoyedBranchesNurtureDevelopmental Author:Channing Tatum