“The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.” WayTryingStoriesActingCareersRolesOne ThingClosestJuvenileDelinquentsDelinquency Author:Paul Mazursky
“Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.” PeopleIfsWayWantDifferentSometimesPlayInterestingOpinionRolesOne ThingGoing To WorkInteresting ThingsTypecasting Author:Aaron Tveit
“One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or another 'their blood cries to heaven,' and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony.” WayTryingSeemsChristianHeavenPoorRolesBreakViolenceOne ThingBloodCryLateHarmonyMiseryCalmWitnessOne WayToo LateDefendersBreak OutProphetic Author:Jacques Ellul
“the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..."” WayWantYearsWellsPlayGuyCertainActorsRolesOne ThingOffersBest WayWant Me Author:Wes Anderson
“I choose every role, in association with the other ones. I try not to do one thing, over and over and over again.” TryingRolesOne ThingAssociation Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one thing, most of my picture books rhyme. Also, when I write a picture book I'm always thinking about the role the pictures will play in the telling of the story. It can take me several months to write a picture book, but it takes me several years to write a novel.” ThinkingWritingYearsBookDifferentPlayStoriesProcessRolesNovelOne ThingMonthsTake MeChaptersRhymeAlways ThinkingPicture Books Author:Sarah Weeks
“I think being an actor in general is acknowledging that we are constantly playing different roles, that we have all these different parts of ourselves and instead of pretending that you are just one thing, as an actor you get to admit that you've got all this stuff going on.” ThinkingDifferentActorsStuffRolesOne ThingJust OnePretending Author:David Hyde Pierce
“One thing you think about when you do get nominated is that there is a coalition of people that think you performed okay in the role. You start to think about how much of a blessing it is to have your peers and then people outside of your peer group to say bravo.” PeopleThinkingRolesOne ThingGroupsBlessingOkayPeersCoalitionsBravoPeer Group Author:Hosea Chanchez
“I've changed my ways - from what roles I was picking till now. I don't do straight "faith" movies. It's one thing I always tell people. I'm not a preacher, I'm a sinner. I'm still learning and falling in a journey that God has me on and doing the best I can.” PeopleWayStillsI CanFallRolesOne ThingJourneyChangedMy WaySinnerPreacherI've Changed Author:Drew Waters
“I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated.” EndsEnoughPlayMomentsShowsGirlPerfectActingRolesStruggleOne ThingIdentityTvsTv ShowsAuditionsPackagesClicheDevastatedAlways WrongPopular Girl Author:Brie Larson
“Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.” WorldHappensArtistIndividualRolesPathOne Thing Author:Kalup Linzy