“ They'd lived their lives on tightropes, never knowing where the next paycheck was coming from or if one was coming at all, their personal lives a mishmash of backstage affairs and dressing room brawls… Michael Callahan
“ Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ Today’s generation didn’t want to watch ancient actors reciting the same tired lines. They wanted to see themselves reflected onscreen –rude, raw, entitled. These kids needed to believe that they them… Melissa Jo Peltier
“ I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she liked the atmosphere of challenge, the way anything that… Helen Oyeyemi
“ Remember that the expressions and vocal patterns you are committing to film will become synecdoches... That means something little that stands in for something big. Your smile will stand in for all hu… Catherynne M. Valente
“ Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearing them say, that the little theatre at Fairport was to open with the performance of a young gentlema… Walter Scott
“ Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway. Emma Thompson
“ Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me. Emma Thompson
“ I also often ask my guests about what they consider to be their invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What w… Terry Gross
“ Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create. Anne Rice
“ Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give up hope. Here is… Shannon L. Alder
“ In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“ I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me. Anne Rice
“ Most of his face had been hidden by long, greasy bangs, and he mumbled in a low voice that made him difficult to understand. From what little Kyosuke had been able to make out, Usami had killed one pe… Mizuki Mizushiro
