John Barrymore Quotes
Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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There is no reason to be ashamed of who you are.
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I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.
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Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere's lights go out.
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Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.
