The text is your greatest enemy.
Sanford MeisnerAnything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination.
Christina WestoverTags: imagination writing inspiration creativity acting christina-westover
If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were all just fill-ins for a long-running soap opera. The actors changed, but the story seldom did. Certainly not the action.
Charles MartinTags: acting actors movie life-story bad-choices bad-scenes
I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!
Greg CurtisOne must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can't be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can't be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can't say about Hitler, I can take him or leave him. Well, I can't be middle-of-the-road about a performance, especially my own. I feel that if I can vomit at seeing a bad performance, I'm ahead of the game.
Patricia BosworthTags: acting artistry high-standards
Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
David MametTags: acting
Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: humor politics food dramatic murder nostalgia satire funny mysteries theater secrets drama acting actors theatre plays opera dinner fantastic i-love-the-theater i-love-the-theatre opera-house playwrights theatre-of-the-absurd
That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.
Vincent H. O'NeilTags: writing theater mystery acting actors writing-tips playwright directing directors playwrights playwrighting
Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.
Vincent H. O'NeilTags: writing murder theater mystery acting writing-tips playwright directing playwriting playwrights books-for-writers
The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written.
Things that made for a normal life—like a daily routine that followed the sun—took a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn’t a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep.
He would often awake with a new idea—as if he’d merely been on a break and not unconscious—and he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot’s seat in a ship that could go anywhere.
Tags: inspiration creativity theater acting playwright directing inspiration-for-writers playwrights playwrighting
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