#acting

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero. ↗

— Richard Dreyfuss

#acting #always #art #been #being

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy. ↗

— Leslie Easterbrook

#characters #comedy #desire #doing #ended

It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#any #athletes #brain #clubs #days

To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#deflation #face #people #reacting #you

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#acting #bubbling #company #constantly #director

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#advanced #i #i think #movie #pretend

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#eighth #eighth grade #fell #grade #i

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#always #because #city #college #could

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning. ↗

— Jack Klugman

#got #i #morning #reason #up

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#almost #civilized #constantly #depends #existence