William Mapother Quotes
Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.
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But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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I love actors.
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I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.
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Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
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Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.
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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
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In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.
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The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.
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God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.
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Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.
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Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.
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Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.
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You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
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We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims.
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And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.
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The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you'll get better.
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The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.
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Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.
