“It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.” SpiritMy OwnActingConsciousnessGreaterTasksPressesPossessed Author:Conrad Veidt
“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.” WorldFirstsChildrenLittlesGovernmentTodayNationsVoiceMy OwnViolencePraiseRaisesPressesDamnCurseBrownOppressedWorld TodayGhettoInconsistentVietnameseDamn You Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.” KnowsMy OwnBasesPressesDamageCall MePublicistsDamage Control Author:Megan Fox
“One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right.” ThinkingFirstsWellsIdeasSometimesMatterCharacterCertainActorsMy OwnActingWatchesOne ThingPositionScenePressesInstinctDialogueProducersI've LearnedThings I've Learned Author:Gerard Butler
“I don't really want to talk about my personal experience. It's something that I have talked about just because it came out in the press but I've tried to navigate the waters in my own comfort-ability.” WantWaterMy OwnAbilityComfortPressesPersonal ExperiencesNavigate Author:Kirsten Dunst