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...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.


Minnie Maddern Fiske

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Your imagination is your most important tool as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.
JANE LEVY The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakespeare, and his Bible, but pores greed...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not intereste...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE ... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest s...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. ...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to ...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE Above all, ignore the audience....
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the n...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE Their rebukes have never made me angry, because I have always wondered why they did not rebuke me mo...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a lu...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE ...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and ...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But,...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is l...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world,...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludi...
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.
CHARLES KEATING You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.
CHARLES KEATING Will father be there?" she asked.

John turned to her in astonishment.

Your fat...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
SAM RILEY As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then im...
RHYS IFANS I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but...
SUSAN SARANDON I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brain...
ADAM DRIVER As far as I know, the original 'X-Men' actors will remain in the franchise.
BEN HARDY You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.
DAVID ORTIZ And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. Bu...
ADAM DRIVER And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.
DEMETRI MARTIN As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
D. B. SWEENEY Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ens...
PEARL CLEAGE I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like hi...
DRAKE As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that abi...
DAVID HAREWOOD As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.
DOUGLAS TRUMBULL As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a ...
BEN DANIELS Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.
JACKIE GLEASON Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
BENJAMIN BRATT You mean old books?"

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
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PHILIP K. DICK James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fu...
KURT BUSCH His heart is as big as Nicaragua.
JIM LAMPLEY People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.
PINO CARUSO As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac...
EDITH PIAF As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
ROB ZOMBIE As far as engaging with fans... it's a tricky thing. I enjoy seeing the feedback on Twitter, etc...
BRYAN COGMAN My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them ...
ELIZABETH PERKINS Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. ...
AMITABH BACHCHAN In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN I lack confidence as an actor.
CHARLES DURNING We must strive to let go our life as we planned,so as to have life we are destined for & that comes ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY Success is not a journey, it's a destination called satisfaction.
ANUJ SOMANY Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.
MAX CASELLA Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty da...
WOODY ALLEN Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.
STELLA ADLER If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hat...
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty wa...
LUKE BRYAN I think of myself as an actor.
OLIVER PLATT As an actor there are no drawbacks.
JOHN MALKOVICH We needed an actor who could convey the character's blend of optimism, recklessness, misguided persi...
JOEL SILVER As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
GERHARD SCHRODER In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources...
STEPHEN LANG I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stu...
ALAN ARKIN Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!
INDIANA EVANS To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
TAYLOR KINNEY I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�...
SETH ADAM SMITH Officially I'm moving in with two of my friends from Fiske. We're pretty much going with an open lot...
JOSH SIMS I still think of myself as an actor,
LOUIS NYE As an actor, you're always changing.
CHARLIE WEBER An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really ...
CARL LEWIS I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of...
TAO OKAMOTO I get attention no matter where I walk, regardless being an actor or celebrity, because big as I am ...
LOU FERRIGNO They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangib...
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
KAT DENNINGS Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
PAUL RUDD

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