“I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.” SchoolEffortActingPaintingNeededHigh SchoolOutletsCollaborative Effort Author:James Franco
“For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.” ArtFilmActingPaintingBlankCanvasFilm SetBlank Canvas Author:Shailene Woodley
“Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express that through music, through painting, through photography, through acting - this is just another way for me to express myself.” IfsWayArtistActingPaintingPhotographyI RealizedAnother Way Author:Common
“Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.” ActingGoneMinutesPaintingTenBathroomTissuesPainting A Picture Author:Shelley Winters
“When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.” PeopleWritingWellsActingPaintingDrawingPortraiturePainting And Drawing Author:Antony Sher
“My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.” IfsGivingLongI CanDifferentLeftBlackRoomsActingStageColorPaintingDirectorsRedGreenPaintMetaphorBrownEditingReally GreatPurpleActing In MoviesRed And Black Author:Scott Glenn
“I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.” WayMeanWould BeAbleActingFocusPaintingPressurePaintPainterGradesSplitsReluctantSixth Grade Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?” ArtUseMightFormGamesActingPaintingElementsChessVideoClassicProseSomething NewSculpture Author:Sam Lake
“I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to the majority of the population in some way. Sometimes it's their looks, other times their perceived sex appeal (often in obvious defiance of their looks), and other times it is their real or imagined talent for acting, writing, painting or banging on the drums. And because people are so susceptible to flattery, there exists an entire industry made up of scam artists whose sole goal is to fleece the flatterable.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingBelieveLooksMadeRealSometimesArtistSexGoalActingSpecialTalentPaintingIndustryMajorityPopulationObviousSuperiorsAppealsCurseSoleFlatteryDefianceSusceptibleBangingSex AppealScamsFleece Author:Fay Faron
“In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus.” MindFirstsArtIdeasMatterStoriesEnergyCausesActingPaintingCreatingWorks Of ArtConstructionAssociationPlasticSpectatorsStimulusDeparture Book:Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice Source: Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice
“Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.” KindVoiceActingClassPaintingIncrediblesPhotographAdolescenceExplodingActing Classes Author:Lynn Shelton
“It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.” WayDoeArtImportantHelpingActingPaintingSceneJokesEverydayBeing YourselfEveryday Life Author:Val Kilmer
“Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain.” TryingActionLastsProcessActingForeverFrontsPaintingGrainComes And GoesEphemeral Author:Giovanni Ribisi
“If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.” IfsPhilosophyLosesActingPaintingPaintJailNothing To Lose Author:Anthony Hopkins
“While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.” MayRunningActorsAbilityActingLeaderPaintingPainterRunnersGreat LeaderGreat ActorsLeadership Potential Book:Leaders: the strategies for taking charge Source: Leaders: the strategies for taking charge
“Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.” BelieveActingCreativePaintingBe CreativeRelevancePainting A Picture Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.
“I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.” WritingPersonsStoriesUseSongOrderActingEmotionCreativePaintingToolsCommunicateWriting SongsCreative Person Author:Michael Marisi Ornstein
“I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.” BelieveI BelieveActingPaintingI Believe InPainting A Picture Author:J. B. Smoove
“I can't think of anything I would rather not - rather do than get up and not do anything. I have to do something. Whether it is painting, writing, acting, shopping, going to the gym, being with friends, going out - I just am a very active person. I have a lot of friends and I travel a lot.” ThinkingWritingPersonsI CanActingPaintingActiveGet UpGymShoppingGoing OutLots Of Friends Author:Joan Collins
“I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.” WritingBelieveArtJobsCoursesTermActingNovelPaintingStructurePatternsNovel Writing Author:Andrew O'Hagan
“As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.” WritingFilmActingPaintingPhotographyMy FriendsCamerasAvailableTeenager Author:Denise Duhamel
“Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.” ThinkingMightActorsActingPaintingVery GoodSubjectiveGood ActorsGreat Actors Author:Billy Boyd
“I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.” FeelsStillsLosesActingPaintingNeededDecidedPassionate Author:Michelle Pfeiffer