Quotes of: Acting-ability Keyword

Opening speaker: At the dawn of the millennium, the nation collapsed. At 15% unemployment, 10 million were out of work. 800,000 students boycotted the schools. The adults lost confidence and, fearing the youth, eventually passed the Millennium Educat...

Battle Royale

I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keepi...

Walter Huston

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundsca...

Walter Murch

I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had a really conservative vibe. All my friends were planning on law school, med school, or Wall Street, and suddenly acting...

Wentworth Miller

Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify it as work. I know a lot of people who are like, 'Man, acting's so much work.' And I'm like, 'No, it's not. I'm having fun.' And I want to keep doing tha...

Billy Unger

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to ...

Kevin Hart

With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit stra...

John Cusack

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as ...

Richard Phillips

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.

Sofia Vassilieva

She hadn’t known that the ability to make pancakes from scratch made a man brutally hot. Now she did.

Charlotte's Chance

Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout for potential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other’s deficiencies to see their possibilities.

Church Planting Landmines

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

The Circle

The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.

Complete Training: From Recruitment to Retirement

The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.

The Coming and Going of Strangers

Although you can’t go back in time and alter your natural level of potential, you can determine how much of that ability you tap into, exploit and develop for the future.

The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

Remember Grace, if you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love.

The Dark Divine

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

Danse Macabre

Your health, wealth, position, performance, ability and attitude are the results of your decisions.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi