Mike Leigh Quotes
The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.Mike Leigh
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
Vikram Chatwal -
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 -
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 -
Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
Gaby Hoffmann -
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.
Dan Castellaneta
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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 -
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 -
A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
Danai Gurira -
Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
Rand Beers -
As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
Karen Allen -
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'.
Fab Five Freddy
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl -
I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
Forest Whitaker -
When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
Tahj Mowry -
You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.
Rachel McAdams -
I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.
Gabriella Wilde -
If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
Olivier Martinez -
The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
Mike Leigh