“I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.” WantKindSaidTodayActorsSoundStupidPaintingConsciousPainterPainting A Picture Author:Franka Potente
“As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.” WantActorsColorPaintingDirectorsPaintCanvasPalette Author:Denzel Washington
“One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion, time, and performance - and that became a much bigger part of my life both as an actor and as a musician and someone who goes on stage and travels around the world and works on productions.” WorldReasonWantedActorsDealsStagePaintingGoes OnMusicianPerformancesBiggerMovedProductionsAround The World Author:Jared Leto
“Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.” ArtActorsProcessStrangePaintingPhotographyConnectedArchitecturePainterFilmmaking Author:Wim Wenders
“When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.” WayWritingHardActorsHurtPiecesPaintingCriticismCriticizeWhere You Are Author:Meryl Streep
“Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.” KnowsYearsPersonsFilmYoungActorsPaintingYears AgoDisappearDrawingFiftyGrantsMovie ActorsPainting And Drawing Author:David Hockney
“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
“I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.” HeartCharacterPastActorsPaintingMy HeartDevelopingCharacter Actors Author:Dylan McDermott
“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
“As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or a piece of work; it's like, it's you, and it's your emotions that they're working with.” KnowsActorsEmotionTeacherPiecesPaintingWorking ItClassroomRevealing Author:James Franco
“If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing." Why make a painting if you don't feel like you have to for something inside of yourself? Why make a song if you don't feel like you have to because there's something that you need to get out? And when you're an actor and you're not performing text that you've written, I think there's this bizarre disconnect with the must-ness of it.” IfsThinkingNeedsFeelsKindArtistSongActorsWrittenPaintingLike YouPerformingBizarre Author:Lola Kirke