I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
Adam Baldwin
Related I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what peo... ADAM BALDWIN If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's goin... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been tha... ELIZABETH OLSEN I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be sayi... NIKKI COX I'm always drawn towards the darker stuff, because I think it's just a lot more interesting.... IWAN RHEON I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say. ALEX COX When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set... JACKIE CHAN When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interestin... DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath. ANTJE TRAUE Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au... ADAM PALLY I've always wanted to be on a show that's well respected and had critical acclaim and that p... MIKE COLTER But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you r... FELICITY JONES I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a ... DANIEL HANDLER I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. ... ANSEL ELGORT It's an honor to have people follow you and watch you. I do get a lot of fan mail and I read eve... HELENA MATTSSON It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn... FELICITY KENDAL I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to ... CHARLIE HUNNAM I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow... TED DANSON I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the ba... NORMAN REEDUS When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don'... DALLAS ROBERTS I'm always looking for a chance to play somebody who's completely opposite of me, just becau... ALEX BRECKENRIDGE What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the gen... JOHN DE MOL, JR. My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can... NATASCHA MCELHONE I want diversity in what I do, as that's what helps you in the long term. It's more fulfilli... THEO JAMES Quarterbacks can still have good bodies. I'm always conscious of the stereotype. I want to chang... COLIN KAEPERNICK I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat... BARBARA ROSENBLAT What you want to watch are the lenders, not the borrowers. The borrowers will always be willing to t... MICHAEL BURRY I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is look... BARBARA KRUGER It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written an... PADDY CONSIDINE It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de... DYLAN WALSH Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons... BRUCE DAVISON I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even... TOM CRUISE The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always wan... ANEURIN BARNARD I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as ... KAREN SALMANSOHN As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do. ANDREW CARNEGIE I'm never satisfied with my performance. I want to keep pushing myself. The great thing about be... DREW FULLER I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always ... MATT DILLON It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and i... ADRIEN BRODY I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as... WILLIAM EARL BROWN I think I'm not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, 'You know, w... EVANGELINE LILLY I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm al... AARON ECKHART As an actor, when you are called upon to do a job, you are oftentimes convinced you can't do it.... ERICH BERGEN You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've be... KEANU REEVES I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is ... ELIAS KOTEAS It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it. ELIZABETH OLSEN I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'tr... BOY GEORGE With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater o... ADAM DRIVER I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the w... LADY GAGA Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an i... RANI MUKERJI I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then t... ALICE MUNRO As an actor, you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life t... MICHELLE FAIRLEY I'm always looking for interesting stories, and I feel in independent film there's more oppo... COBIE SMULDERS I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watc... ANDY MILONAKIS I can't imagine soaps will ever stop, because people will always watch as long as they have grea... KATHERINE KELLY I never heard Jack Nicklaus say, 'I'm a great player,' or Tiger Woods, as a matter of fa... ARNOLD PALMER I'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, ... STERLING KNIGHT See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to imp... RACHAEL HARRIS It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it rea... JOHN ZORN As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my... DYLAN MCDERMOTT Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a stra... MICHELLE WILLIAMS Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until ... DAVID CROSS As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story. MATTHEW LEWIS It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'... IOAN GRUFFUDD As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun ... TAYLOR SCHILLING For someone in an alternative job, an alternative lifestyle, it's very hard to explain what I do... CONNOR FRANTA My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I'v... COLMAN DOMINGO Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in... F. MURRAY ABRAHAM 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to wa... MARA WILSON It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do i... GARRET DILLAHUNT I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-no... DAX SHEPARD As an adult, I've always tried to be a good person my whole life, so I've made good friends,... ROMAN REIGNS I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looki... SIMON COWELL I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of... CHARLES OSGOOD The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and ... AASIF MANDVI I really have to say 'thank you' to our fans, because I think it's difficult for Europea... ALAN MAK It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's ... GERARD BUTLER I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning buil... DYLAN MCDERMOTT I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun,... PAGET BREWSTER I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for matu... BURT WARD I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and thin... CLAIRE FOY I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more i... DAVID S. GOYER I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going t... DANIEL RADCLIFFE It's interesting because Swedes subtitle everything, so they're so used to it. When my wife ... GREG POEHLER People like reality; I think it's always happened from the Roman times, when people used to go t... DAVID CHARVET I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see pan... ANDY SERKIS You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with t... AKIVA SCHAFFER People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm f... JOHNNY DEPP It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same.... BRYAN CRANSTON I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had th... MARY ELLEN MARK My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. ... SONAKSHI SINHA I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group... JOHN IRVING I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll some... CHELSEA CAIN As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do wit... JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That i... RANDY QUAID Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what... SHIA LABEOUF I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people a... CARLY CHAIKIN It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to hav... LIONEL MESSI As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ANDREW CARNEGIE As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ANDREW CARNEGIE What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b... STEPHEN R. COVEY
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JAMES BALDWIN No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo... JAMES BALDWIN Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion... JAMES BALDWIN There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one ou... JAMES BALDWIN Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita... JAMES BALDWIN It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel... JAMES BALDWIN Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a s... JAMES BALDWIN Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. JAMES BALDWIN People can cry much easier than they can change. JAMES BALDWIN The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si... JAMES BALDWIN The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ... JAMES BALDWIN All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc... JAMES BALDWIN Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit... JAMES BALDWIN We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ... JAMES BALDWIN The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. JAMES BALDWIN Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and stre... JAMES BALDWIN Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocu... JAMES BALDWIN I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. ALEC BALDWIN Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. JAMES BALDWIN He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a ... JAMES BALDWIN The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. JAMES BALDWIN Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immut... JAMES BALDWIN What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity f... MONICA BALDWIN The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. JAMES BALDWIN I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. STANLEY BALDWIN For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their abili... JAMES BALDWIN I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on th... JAMES BALDWIN I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of th... MONICA BALDWIN I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, ... MATT BALDWIN