John Gilpin Quotes

It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.

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• The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • You
  • Actor

• You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Writing
  • Play
  • Thought

• Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Actor
  • Just
  • Brilliant

• Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Artist
  • Actor
  • YouTube

• If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Real
  • Guy
  • You

• I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Player
  • Same

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Korean

• Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Philosophy

• The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Today
  • Actor
  • Tomorrow

• I can put tweets on a map to show who is saying what where, which could be used for marketing or social research.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Marketing
  • Research
  • Saying

• My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Evil
  • Silly
  • Research

• I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Method

• You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Eye
  • Actor
  • Look

• I've learnt some important lessons: I never rely on the opinion of one doctor alone. I do my own research; I read up and am ready with questions I need answered.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Important
  • Alone

• For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Book
  • Chance
  • Learn

• We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Actor
  • Entertainment
  • Joke

• I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Play
  • Like
  • Movies

• I knew what I was getting into when I chose golf. Hell, I knew I'd never get rich and famous. All the discrimination, the not being able to play where I deserved and wanted to play - in the end, I didn't give a damn. I was made for a tough life because I'm a tough man. And in the end, I won: I got a lot of black people playing golf.

  

  Charlie Sifford
  • People
  • Life
  • Black

• You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Work
  • Different
  • Oil

• As you give out, so shall you receive.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Receive
  • Give Out

• I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Kid

• Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Songs
  • Radio
  • Shower

• It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.

  

  John Gilpin
  • Play
  • Actor
  • Research