“I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.” YearsLeftActingMajorsUclaEnglish Major Author:James Franco
“I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.” PeopleIfsMindCharacterStoriesActorsStarsDifferencesActingRolesMajorsConclusionStardom Author:Morgan Freeman
“I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.” ActingMajorsTheaterPracticals Author:Laurie Metcalf
“I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor." That was how we opened the semester.” KnowsSaidSchoolActorsInterestActingTeacherCollegeDramaMajorsPercentSemester Author:Greg Kinnear
“My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors.” FactsAgeYoungActorsActingSeeingMajorsHollywoodTiredIntentionAsianYoung AgeEnamored Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment” FirstsHas BeensValuesPassionSimpleDecisionActingCareersDevelopmentProjectsMajorsEmbraceEntertainmentArchitectureFriendlyConstructionMy PassionEnvironmentally FriendlyConstruction Projects Author:Brad Pitt
“Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act. Although children are really into play and play acting, and this is a major part of their existence, they never actually find the playing or acting of adults credible.” WayWantChildrenDifferentPlayActingExistenceMajorsAdultsCredibleWorking With Children Author:Asghar Farhadi
“It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.” PoliticalForceActingTechnologyMajorsMachinesPolitical Systems Author:Terence McKenna
“Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir.” PeopleWayWritingTryingIdeasDifferentEyeActingSeeingInfluenceMajorsMethodAddressesPreachingChoirThrough The EyesDifferent IdeasMethod ActingPreaching To The Choir Author:Jello Biafra
“No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.” WayWantWritingArtStillsMatterActingClassDesignDirectorsMajorsTheaterNo Matter WhatSceneryFreshmanActing ClassesUcla Author:Carol Burnett
“Cancer vaccines are in the future. And they could be very effective. Checkpoint blockade, which is acting your immune system to recognize those cancer cells and kill them is another very promising approach and there have been some checkpoint blockade drugs out in the market now that will release the brake on T lymphocytes, the T lymphocyte is your major killer of tumor cells.” Has BeensActingDrugApproachMajorsCancerReleaseCellsKillersImmuneVaccinesImmune SystemBrakeTumorsBlockadesCheckpoints Author:Laurie Glimcher
“When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business - my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.” ShowsHouseParentActingCollegeGrewMomDadMajorsBuiltMy DadMy MomShow Business Author:Geena Davis
“I turned down a contract with a major network in New York my senior year of college in order to move to Los Angeles and pursue my acting career. But so far it's working out.” YearsMovingOrderActingCareersNew YorkCollegeMajorsWork OutPursueLos AngelesContractsSeniorTurned DownSenior Year Author:Justin Hires
“I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college, at the University of Washington. I was a theater major there and got my training. Then after college, I packed up my Honda Civic and kind of fulfilled the cliché of driving down to Los Angeles, and literally, brick by brick - you know, the slow and painful way - I built my career.” KnowsWayKindWaitingActingClassCareersCollegeGrewMajorsGrew UpTrainingBuiltAreasTheaterUniversityPainfulDrivingLos AngelesFulfilledBricksCivicsActing ClassesHonda Author:Mariana Klaveno
“I changed my major to English literature, which was on the advice of my father. I finally said, "You know, Dad, to heck with it: I'm just going to be an actor. But I'm going to go to school." And he said, "Well, if you're going to go to school, then major in English literature. Those are the tools you are going to be working with as a man who's going to be acting in English, one would assume."” IfsKnowsMenWellsSaidSchoolActorsFatherLiteratureActingAdviceChangedDadMajorsToolsAssumingEnglish Literature Author:Keith Carradine
“Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsArtFormActorsGivenActingRolesLuckyMajorsPercentWindowProfessionCraftsAwardsBroadwayPercentagesAcademyUnemployedNominationsAcademy Awards Author:Viola Davis
“I just figured it out when I was approaching the age where teenagers forced to make major life decisions and I just went with my heart, which is that I love acting, and was lucky enough to kind of pursue that and for it to work out so far.” HeartKindEnoughAgeDecisionActingMy HeartLuckyMajorsWork OutPursueTeenagerLife Decision Author:Nell Hudson
“I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.” ActingHappenedMajorsScaryVery Famous Author:Emma Watson