William Hazlitt Quotes
To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
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I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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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.
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I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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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.
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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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'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.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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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.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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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.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
