Acting Quote by Alan Ball Download Open image “I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.” — Alan Ball ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acting Acting Beneath Actor Actors American Actors Careers Movie Television Television Acting Theatre Thinking Used
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Acting on TV is ruled out. I admire those who do it, but I found it quite strenuous. — Hema Malini Copy Share Image
I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles. — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's how it… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“Well did you call the hypothetical hardware store and buy a theoretical chainsaw?-- Pam to Jessica, True Blood” — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“Pam: I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems. Maybe I smile too much.… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time.… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid… — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
It was only when I went to acting school that I was like, "You are absolutely such a pigheaded freak show that you thought… — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting.… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image