#actor

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#life #make #only #over #physically

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing. ↗

— Obie Trice

#actor #i #nothing #right #right thing

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#brain #director #i #i think #more

Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#anymore #away #back #between #case

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor. ↗

— Michael Ironside

#director #i #storyteller

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#another #collect #decision #divide #factor

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin. ↗

— John Irving

#better #business #going #i #i think

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#acquire #actor #detail #ellis #good

I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#directors #doing #done #going #good

‎"Repeat that?" "It's National Talk Like a Pirate Day. Didn't you know?" "Somehow I missed the memo." "You mean, 'Somehow I missed the memo, arrr!'" "Precisely. Arr. So, Mrs. Jack... Er, is that still your name? Or, I tremble to ask, have you adopted a pirate identity?" "Arr, matey, of course I have! It's..." She pulled an eggplant from the grocery bag. "Captain Eggplantier." She needed to stop speaking the first words that popped into her mind. "Captain Eggplanteir." He sounded very doubtful. "That's right. A family name. It's Belgian. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#becky-jack #felix #funny #humor #family