I have actual acting scars.
Benedict CumberbatchI've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
Benedict CumberbatchStichwörter: exercise acting spy
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
Benedict CumberbatchStichwörter: fun acting challenge comfort-zone
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
Benedict CumberbatchStichwörter: work ambition opportunity privilege acting actor choose
[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.
Benedict CumberbatchStichwörter: humor bilbo-baggins film acting movie the-hobbit benedict-cumberbatch martin-freeman
I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller, to a detective. If anything, I'd like Gary Oldman's career: he's the perfect example of it. I've love to have a really broad sweep of characters - to be able to do something edgy, surprising and unfashionable.
Benedict CumberbatchStichwörter: ambition acting surprise career gary-oldman
At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I dressed the part. Denial and rationalization were two of my most effective tools in working my way through our social obligations. I believed that playing the roles of wife and mother were the least I could do to help support Tom's career.
During the day, I was a puzzle with innumerable pieces. One piece made my family a nourishing breakfast. Another piece ferried the kids to school and to soccer practice. A third piece managed to trip to the grocery store. There was also a piece that wanted to sleep for eighteen hours a day and the piece that woke up shaking from yet another nightmare. And there was the piece that attended business functions and actually fooled people into thinking I might have something constructive to offer.
I was a circus performer traversing the tightwire, and I could fall off into a vortex devoid of reality at any moment. There was, and had been for a very long time, an intense sense of despair. A self-deprecating voice inside told me I had no chance of getting better. I lived in an emotional black hole.
p20-21, talking about dissociative identity disorder (formerly multiple personality disorder).
Stichwörter: reality social despair emotion denial depression acting perfection social-anxiety puzzle hopeless hopelessness mental-health rationalization mental-illness circus pieces pretending dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder black-hole parts mpd did functioning
Not wanting the girls to endure the shame of a crazy mother, I spent my days acting as normal as possible. I walked through life, an actor in a Leave it to Beaver episode, determined to disguise all clues of my real condition until... well, until I could find an appropriate moment to do away with myself." [...]
"Yet even as my depression spiraled into ever more precarious territory, I retained an uncanny ability to disguise my true mental condition from everyone except Tom. He was my sole source of strength and he never stopped encouraging me.
Stichwörter: despair emotion depression acting daughters hopelessness mental-health mental-illness disguise suicidality pretending dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder depressive mpd severe-depression suicidehopeless
Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.
Various attributed sourcesStichwörter: memoir acting fathers-and-daughters baby-boomers seniors
YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.
Tony KushnerStichwörter: acting playwright playwriting theatre-quotations
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