'Acting' Ideas

I treat both acting and writing as a creation – writing is just another element or aspect of it.

Meital Dohan

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

Quentin Tarantino

So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.

Gena Rowlands

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That’s the bottom line.

Glenn Close

It’s bad writing, however naturalistic it’s written, that’s where you have to do your best acting.

Adam Brody

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

Antoine Rivarol

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

Brad Falchuk

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want.

Charlie Munger

Achievement Deserving Success

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Jean Cocteau

Deception Perception Reality

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

Jean Cocteau

Identity Individuality Rebellion

The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about.

Charlie Munger

Worry

It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.

Charlie Munger

Criticism Past Stupidity

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