“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'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.” MadeFilmActorsMajorsRelateFilmmakerChores Author:Bill Forsyth
“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'” IfsHumansTwoIdeasPlayWholeMomentsRememberActorsBitsHoursAudienceImagineFrontsPleaseNormalMajorsToughCookingResponseMythOpeningProtectedAirportsStirringOnionsCarrotsHaresChopping Author:Bill Nighy
“It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful.” NeedsGirlActorsFunMajorsMadDancingGlimpseRespectfulCautiousPerksBe Cautious Author:Emraan Hashmi
“Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.” StillsTwoActorsMillionsMajorsHollywoodTwo Things Author:Uwe Boll
“Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.” MayPersonsCountryBigsAmericaArtistActorsChallengesCompanyMajorsTownsActressesGrantsTouring Author:Louise Slaughter
“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
“They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some of the arguments and discrepancies African American actors have with the opportunities here.” ThinkingKnowsYearsAmericaPastActorsOpportunityHalfMajorsArgumentEntertainmentAfrican AmericanLeagueMajor LeagueDiscrepancies Author:Aml Ameen
“When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.” DoneThreeActorsRolesWeekKingsPeriodsMajorsLear Author:Frank Langella
“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
“I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.” ActorsAnimalRolesCostMajorsGreat Actors Author:Tony Kushner
“According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.” TwoHandsActorsGrowthTermCreativeGreaterEconomicSpecialCenturySourceHigherMajorsResourcesAreasDestructionManagementEntrepreneurProductivityExpertsYieldPeterEconomistTwentieth CenturyCreative DestructionEconomic Resources Book:How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas Source: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
“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
“I think there is a major difference between actors and actresses. All of the men I've worked with have been really difficult, whereas the women have always been extremely cooperative. I began thinking about that, and I think it comes down to a question of comfort with vanity.” ThinkingMenHas BeensActorsDifficultDifferencesHe ManComfortMajorsActressesVanityCooperativesActors And Actresses Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“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
“There was a deliberate decision after the failure of the League of Nations to make the next attempt to establish a global political actor sensitive to geopolitical realities. The underlying idea was to provide major states, defined in 1945 by reference to the winners in the Second World War (now an anachronism), with assurance that they could take part in the UN without jeopardising their national interests. In this regard, the UN has succeeded, as none of the big countries has withdrawn, and the Organisation has managed to achieve virtually universal membership of all sovereign states.” WorldIdeasWarCountryStatesBigsRealityPoliticalNextActorsNationsInterestDecisionAchieveMajorsUniversalRegardDefinedWinnerLeagueSensitiveWar Of The WorldsSovereignAssuranceDeliberateOrganisationSecond World WarMembershipNational InterestsGeopoliticalAnachronismLeague Of Nations Author:Richard A. Falk
“The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.” PeopleGovernmentActorsInformationTypeMajorsCorporations Author:Julian Assange
“Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.” ThinkingLooksChildrenHas BeensSometimesActorsStarsRolesMajorsMovieStaffMovie StarCould Have BeenMansionsTurned DownLimousinesVolvo Author:Kristin Scott Thomas