Quotes of: Good-actors Keyword

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

Richard Gere

Hopefully, I'm not stealing scenes from other actors, because then they won't want to work with me.

Rob Riggle

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

Tom Stoppard

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

Vincente Minnelli

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

William Sanderson

I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.

Zac Efron

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

Robert Vaughn

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting m...

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdes...

The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction

Craft can be practiced by anyone, regardless of the skill or artistry that has come to be demanded by those who preach craft. Like a good meal, a good Crafternoon shouldn't need much - a few quality ingredients, a couple of good friends, and a little...

Crafternoon: A Guide to Getting Artsy and Crafty with Your Friends All Year Long

Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and th...

Dance Dance Dance

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishab...

Ender in Exile

schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff" (loose translation: nature, alas, made only one being out of you although there was material for a good man & a rogue)

Faust: First Part

You don't have to be a good person to feel like a good person, though. There's a loophole I found where I don't do good, helpful things, but I keep myself in a perpetual state of thinking I might.

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it. And now I know it, I know it ...

Siddhartha

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they m...

Liberalism and Its Critics

When I help you, I feel good, you feel good, and the videographer I hired to document my generosity, altruism, and all around awesomeness feels good. I never knew how much love I had to give until the camera started recording.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

I scan the room for objects to hit her with. I want to hammer over the head with something, or stab her. I don’t know what stops me, but I guess that’s the difference between a good person and a murderer. The murderer doesn’t stop themselves, b...

Paper Aeroplanes

Dance comes naturally to us when we're little but fades when we get older. Too many people let the stresses of life get them wound up. I think there's something to be said for cutting loose and having a good time. And hey, people even danced in Bible...

Picture Perfect

Knowing all of this makes me love and hate Jesus at the same time. Because, when instead of contrasting good and evil, he contrasted truth and evil, I have to think about all the times I've substituted being good (or appearing to be good) for truth.

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

Act'. How many good people do you really know? I discount those who mouth out platitudes for the edification of the young, and who truly are 'good', whatever that means?" What a strange subject, and from such a strange person!"Everyone I know is a mi...

Remalna's Children