#playing

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character. ↗

— Haley Joel Osment

#advice #around #believing #best #character

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#hate #i #most #people #playing

Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too. ↗

— Antoinette Perry

#circle #dining #easy #go #going

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov! ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#career #challenging #chekhov #gay #jewish

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#group #important #playing #solo #sound

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. ↗

— Tom Peters

#around #building #cause #common #community

I had big shoes to fill, but the way we have been playing has made the transition easy. ↗

— Ricky Ponting

#big #big shoes #easy #fill #had

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. ↗

— Robert Quine

#develop #i #listening #miles #miles davis

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#being #challenging #had #him #i

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#four #going #great #great music #guys