“Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.” LastsTermMemoriesActingTrumpIntenseBridgesConcentrationContractsShort TermShort Term Memory Author:Gore Vidal
“Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.” PeopleActorsMemoriesActingPoetry IsDeceiverReciting Author:Hetty King
“The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.” WorldMindMeanMadeReasonFormValuesMemoriesActingBrainPrinciplesFailingDiversityComputerProgramHistoricalDrivenScalesInternalsCategoriesCriteriaConstraintsAnalogies Author:Gerald Edelman
“Just keep acting is my plan, I just want to keep going for as long as I can. I've had a fantastic time on Potter, I will be very sad to leave it because every time I look back on one of these films, every scene I watch will be forever linked to a memory of what happened that day or something that was happening around that time in my life.” WantLooksLongI CanFilmMemoriesActingWatchesForeverPlansHappenedSceneHappeningsFantasticKeep GoingLinkedPottersVery Sad Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought, "God he was acting a lot." Great actor, but nonstop acting. Wall to wall, fitted-carpet acting.” FilmActorsNamesMemoriesActingWallOne LoveCarpetGreat ActorsVery Famous Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.” YearsMemoriesActingCareersBloodUnderstoodHollywoodAgentsPersistent Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“You must create the character's internal life. What do I mean by internal life? I mean the thoughts, feelings, memories, and inner decisions that may not be spoken. When we look into the eyes of actors giving fully realized performances, we can see them thinking. We're interested in what they're experiencing that may never be spoken, that quality of nonverbal expression - which is as much a part of the characters as breathing and as real as what they say and do. This is their internal life. It helps us believe in the characters and care about them.” ThinkingGivingBelieveLooksMayMeanRealCharacterHelpingFeelingsEyeCareActorsMemoriesDecisionActingQualityExpressionPerformancesBreathingInternalsNonverbal Author:Larry Moss
“And then in the FBI report it says that Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the FBI because of her concussion because she didn't have a memory. But she was acting as secretary of state at the time which means we had a secretary of state who was acting who doesn't have a memory of what she was doing.” MeanStatesRememberMemoriesActingClintonInterviewsReportsSecretaryFbiExitConcussions Author:Rudy Giuliani