John Barrymore Quotes

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

John Barrymore

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• I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • City
  • Acting
  • Lake

• Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• 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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • English
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • America
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Money
  • Acting
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Acting

• Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Sea
  • Conditions
  • Ice

• 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.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Talent

• Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Acting
  • Profession
  • Singular

• 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.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Acting

• I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Acting
  • Times
  • Seriously

• I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

  

  Usher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rose

• I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Time
  • Know
  • Ice

• Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Age
  • Never
  • Talent

• 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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Work
  • Real
  • Boy

• 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.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Think
  • Star

• Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Acting
  • Suits
  • Perfectly

• We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Different
  • Way
  • Strokes

• Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • History
  • Future
  • Push

• If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking leaks into yours. So whatever changes MFAs have made to the culture, it's to the culture as a whole. It can't be pinned down to individual books in a way that some people would like to do.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Book
  • Culture
  • Community

• I love sci-fi. Growing up, I was a big fan of the 'Alien' series, 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,' etcetera. Plus, anything apocalyptic - 'I Am Legend,' '1984,' 'Battlestar Galactica.'

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Growing
  • Know
  • Space

• Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Acting
  • Talent
  • Glasses