Paul Henreid Quotes

I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

Paul Henreid

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• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • People
  • Work
  • Teach

• Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Acting

• Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Human
  • Act
  • Morality

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Act

• Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Business
  • Political
  • Acting

• I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Time
  • Done
  • Acting

• While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Same

• In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Life
  • Art
  • Act

• But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • You
  • See
  • Act

• As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • New
  • Act

• You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Movie
  • You
  • Acting

• People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Team
  • Teach
  • Where

• I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • School
  • Like
  • Balance

• I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Story
  • Teach
  • Short

• With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Interesting
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Acting
  • Start
  • Strangers

• Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Trying
  • Understand
  • Act

• It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Goals
  • Easy
  • Act

• The world is being destroyed by psychopaths, so of all the things to be concerned about - acting, it's not really up there, is it?

  

  Reg E. Cathey
  • World
  • Acting
  • Really

• Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n' roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Music
  • Live

• Spend all you have for loveliness.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Loveliness

• Only first-place trophies will be displayed, accepted, or presented in this battalion. Second place in our line of work is defeat of the unit on the battlefield, and death for the individual in combat. No fat troops or officers. Decision-making will be decentralized: Push the power down. It pays off in wartime. Loyalty flows down as well. I check up on everything. I am available day or night to talk with any officer of this battalion. Finally, the sergeant major works only for me and takes orders only from me. He is my right-hand man.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Work
  • Death
  • Battalion

• I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

  

  Paul Henreid
  • Acting
  • Teach
  • Act