Stephen Collins

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

quote by Stephen CollinsReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian

Share

Related quotes

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

quote by Arthur LoweReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Share

Behind the Scenes

The actor struts his little hour,
Between the limelight and the band;
The public feel the actor's power,
Yet nothing do they understand
Of all the touches here and there
That make or mar the actor's part,
They never see, beneath the glare,
The artist striving after art.
To them it seems a labour slight
Where nought of study intervenes;
You see it in another light
When once you've been behind the scenes.

For though the actor at his best
Is, like a poet, born not made,
He still must study with a zest
And practise hard to learn his trade.
So, whether on the actor's form
The stately robes of Hamlet sit,
Or as Macbeth he rave and storm,
Or plays burlesque to please the pit,

'Tis each and all a work of art,
That constant care and practice means --
The actor who creates a part
Has done his work behind the scenes.

poem by Andrew Barton PatersonReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!

Share

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

quote by Rene AuberjonoisReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Share
Giovanni Morassutti

For me personally, The Organic Creative Process helped me to discover what kind of actor I want to be; but this is a process that goes beyond acting. It actually revealed to me what I want to do in my life and that I have to work hard to make it real.

Giovanni Morassutti in Foreword to Per scelta, per caso. Oltre l'Actors Studio by John Strasberg, published by Dino Audino editore (2016) (2016)Report problemRelated quotes
Submitted by anonym
Vote! | Copy!

Share
Giovanni Morassutti

For me personally, The Organic Creative Process helped me to discover what kind of actor I want to be; but this is a process that goes beyond acting. It actually revealed to me what I want to do in my life and that I have to work hard to make it real.

Giovanni Morassutti in Foreword to Per scelta, per caso. Oltre l'Actors Studio by John Strasberg, published by Dino Audino editore (2016)Report problemRelated quotes
Submitted by anonym
Vote! | Copy!

Share

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

quote by Sam J. JonesReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Share

Whatshisname

An actor always plays a part.
He has no personality.
It is the essence of his art
an actor’s capability
To become anyone at all.
Whoever they’re supposed to be
at least until the curtains fall
Revert to being nobody.
Their whole life is a fantasy.
They don’t know who they really are.
They can cope with reality
but only so much: Insofar
as I can see, because they can
act like any other man.
12/07/2009

http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers

poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e HoggReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!

Share

Actor Of Love

Hold on
I have found something I longing for
To fill the hollowness of my heart
But why I'm feeling more of sorrow

Before
I am the one who said: 'Oh, I'll control'
But now I realize you are my world
And it's waiting to break apart

I'm an actor of love
I'm trying to perfect
But I'm just fooling around

I'm an actor of love
I want to be your hero
But I've made myself a clown

I'm an actor of love
I need you by my side
But now you leave me alone

I'm an actor of love
I beg your forgiveness
But you refuse me so cold

Sometimes
We wonder why we should be together
Do we really dream of love forever?
Or we afraid to be alone

I'm an actor of love
I want to protect you
But I always hurt you bad

I'm an actor of love
I want to be your shield
But may turn someone you hate

I'm an actor of love
We kiss in the morning
But in night we have a war

I'm an actor of love
We care for each other
But we only circle round

If this love only makes me crazy
Take the story and just let it be
Tragedy or comedy
Or anything it wants to be

poem by Maria SudibyoReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!

Share

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

quote by David Hyde PierceReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Share

I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.

quote by Shuler HensleyReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Share
Jude Law

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

quote by Jude LawReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Share
Jude Law

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

quote by Jude LawReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!

Share

Consumed Within the Process

Consumed within the process
That process we call life.
Immuned? Not from this process.
It keeps the vision near yet uncompromised.
And far enough to become realized.

Consumed.
Within the process.
That process called life!
Don't assume...
This process,
Is a process you can't like!

Consumed.
Within the process.
That process called life!
Don't assume...
This process,
Is a process you can't like!

Consumed.
Within the process.
That process called life!
Don't assume...
This process,
Is a process you can't like!

Consumed within the process.
That process we call life.
Immuned?
Not from this process!

It keeps the vision near yet uncompromised.
And far enough to become realized.
Closing its eyes only when it wishes,
To call itself out!

Consumed.
Within the process.
That process called life!
Don't assume...
This process,
Is a process you can't like!

Consumed.
Within the process.
That process called life!
Don't assume...
This process,
Is a process you can't like!

It keeps the vision in precision,
Until it's in 'all' sights.

Consumed.
Within the process.
That process called life!
Don't assume...
This process,
Is a process you can't like!

Consumed.
Within the process.
That process called life!
Don't assume...
This process,
Is a process you can't like!

It keeps the vision in precision,
Until it's in 'all' sights.

Consumed.
Within the process.

Just consumed.
Within the process this process.

Consumed.
Within the process.
That process called life!
Don't assume...
This process,
Is a process you can't like!

poem by Lawrence S. PertillarReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!

Share
Kevin Kelly

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.

quote by Kevin KellyReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Share
Meryl Streep

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

quote by Meryl StreepReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Share

The Process

Leave them alone!
You pose a threat,
To their process.
'Huh?
Their process?
What Process?
Their process doesn't exist! '

Sssshhh...
Quietly.
That's why you must leave them alone.
They are not aware of it.
And you...
Trying to get them to make some sense,
Is upsetting.
Just go along with it.

'Go along with what? '
The 'process'.
'But it doesn't exist.'

You know it and I know it.
Why can't you just leave it alone...
And let them pretend?
Why is it so important to you,
That they become aware and conscious?
Why?

There are several other charities,
To which you can donate your time and efforts.
In this case...
These minds have already been wasted.
Trust me.
Why do you think I whisper to you?
There are only a few of us left with the power to think.
Trust me?
Why do you think I whisper to you?

poem by Lawrence S. PertillarReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!

Share

I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

quote by Ray WalstonReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Share

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

quote by Lloyd BridgesReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Share

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

quote by Piper PeraboReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Share

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

quote by Walter KoenigReport problemRelated quotes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Share