Hal Linden Quotes

The best part of acting is the rehearsal, because that is where the real discovery comes. And if you're lucky, some of that actually makes it onto the page and some of that actually makes it onto the screen.

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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.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • College
  • Acting
  • New York

• I'm more interested in producing than acting.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Acting
  • More
  • Interested

• Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
  • Past
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • America
  • Acting

• There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Real
  • Humble
  • Dignity

• Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Way
  • Influence
  • Films

• 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.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Powerful
  • Better
  • Acting

• 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
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Same

• If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Real
  • Guy
  • You

• We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Creative

• I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Acting
  • Times
  • Seriously

• Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Acting

• Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

  

  Walter Kirn
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  • Age
  • Feeling

• I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Great
  • Real
  • Character

• I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Real
  • Home

• Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Crazy
  • Acting
  • Industry

• Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• Ch. 6 at resologist.net

  

  Charles Fort

• Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
  • Fabulous
  • Madonna

• I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Support

• When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Desire

• The best part of acting is the rehearsal, because that is where the real discovery comes. And if you're lucky, some of that actually makes it onto the page and some of that actually makes it onto the screen.

  

  Hal Linden
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Lucky