Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time. —Meryl Streep More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know. —Meryl Streep More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art. —Meryl Streep More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul. —Meryl Streep More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. —George Burns More about this quote Tags: honesty acting faking it Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. —Bette Davis More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. —Tom Lehrer More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity. —Thomas H. Huxley More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits. —Robert Half More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. —Paul Graham More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. —Paul Graham More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Corona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved or untrained to stand the test. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email