Andrea Romano Quotes
You don't want to bring an actor in and force them into a performance. You want their input. You want their creative thoughts.

Quotes to Explore
-
I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
-
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
-
Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
-
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
-
Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.
-
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.
-
Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
-
The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
-
Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
-
I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.
-
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
-
We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
-
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
-
I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
-
The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
-
The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
-
As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.
-
I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
-
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
-
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
-
I'm retired, man. I'm loving it. Just being a bum. I kind of like it.
-
I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned.
-
You don't want to bring an actor in and force them into a performance. You want their input. You want their creative thoughts.