At the level of high culture with which this book is concerned, active bigotry is probably fairly rare. , since the social context is so far from neutral. To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary...
I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will--a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul...the bloodiest of mutilations.
And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can -...
What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the bl...
I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth...
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it. But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halve...
I think good acting is always character acting.
Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.
There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.
What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.
One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
