Sam Shepard Quotes
With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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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.
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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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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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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I don’t like religion because it relies on other people - you shouldn’t need to rely on others for knowledge. I think the only thing you need to believe is in yourself. I think people are weak if they need something to worship.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
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These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.
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Having brought diversity to the air in the way that we have with Kerry Washington and Viola Davis toplining their shows, and then shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' and 'Black-ish,' have been very important. I look forward to continuing in that vein.
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With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.
