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SISSY SPACEK Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 secon...
SAM SHEPARD I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.
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GERMANY KENT When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not ...
ALEXANDRE AJA I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very...
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ERIC ROBERTS We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in th...
KURTWOOD SMITH Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do ...
FINN WITTROCK I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
MARK RUFFALO Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
IAN MCSHANE Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scen...
JET LI If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene, that ide...
CRAIG MAPP In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW we very rarely do.
ORLANDO AYALA The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do i...
BENJAMIN BRATT Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft...
AMY IRVING I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.
LOGAN LERMAN With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of...
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TARA LIPINSKI I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.
DABNEY COLEMAN Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to ...
BENJAMIN BRATT The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm not done with acting forever. I'm very grateful for what my acting has brought me. But you only ...
JOHN CORBETT In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of u...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline...
BEN MENDELSOHN Very rarely do the best things in life fall into our laps; we have to work for them.
EMILYANN GIRDNER I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have lear...
DO WON CHANG It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who be...
DO WON CHANG When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked a...
DO WON CHANG I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing...
BEN HOROWITZ Ever since having kids, napping is something that I'm prone to do and very easily could do but r...
ADAM SCOTT You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to mo...
JORDAN GAVARIS You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER I do 'sissy with a heart of gold' really well.
BILLY PORTER Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
MARTIN FREEMAN That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.
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SISSY SPACEK For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
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SISSY SPACEK My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of t...
SISSY SPACEK My father's family is German and Czech.
SISSY SPACEK My biggest thrill in life is to read in the afternoon until I fall asleep and take a nap.
SISSY SPACEK I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big ...
SISSY SPACEK I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything el...
SISSY SPACEK You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
SISSY SPACEK I feel so blessed to get to do what I love to do and work with so many wonderfully talented people, ...
SISSY SPACEK I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed ...
SISSY SPACEK I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running ...
SISSY SPACEK Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an ...
SISSY SPACEK You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep ...
SISSY SPACEK I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and y...
SISSY SPACEK There is a long tradition of pungent living in the South. It was wonderful to have that imprinted on...
SISSY SPACEK There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond...
SISSY SPACEK I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after bro...
SISSY SPACEK Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing ...
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SISSY SPACEK That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-bud...
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SISSY SPACEK I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything e...
SISSY SPACEK Everybody who loves me calls me Sissy, so I guess that's just who I am. When I'm 80, they...
SISSY SPACEK The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.
SISSY SPACEK I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me.
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SISSY SPACEK Junior and senior high school years were not a good time.
SISSY SPACEK Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
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CHARITY SHEA If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene and enjoy...
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BIPASHA BASU Rarely do you see a pistol.
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HUGH GRANT The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many p...
KAREN GILLAN Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just beca...
ALISON PILL You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. So...
KEVIN WHATELY When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT It's very unusual on 'Game of Thrones' for there to be a deleted scene because the scrip...
ALEX GRAVES Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To-do list : to-do list!
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NATASHA CALIS I mean, theater acting for me is the true form. It's the real place where you learn, the place where...
DOMINIC MONAGHAN A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want....
CAB CALLOWAY Flashback in film rarely works.
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DAVID SUCHET The foundation for film acting is stage acting.
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