Estelle Parsons Quotes
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
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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?
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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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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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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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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've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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Well, my brother started acting before I did.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
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Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
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I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.
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I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.
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I believe strongly that most people in this country U.S. don't want a totalitarian state...And when conservatives say, "Get the government out of my backyard," the reality is, you can't say that and put somebody in the White House who's gonna be in your business.
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There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
