As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federli...
Anthony Beal
If you want to make a movie, make it. Don`t wait for a grant, don`t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it. - Giving advice to young aspiring filmmakers at the 1994 Independent Spirit Awards
Quentin Tarantino
(On his advice to aspiring actors) Be good to you`re fellow players: We are all in this together. Whether you are working, or in-between jobs, you need all the help you can get. I just read an interview with a very famous director who decided to slum a bi...
Chelcie Ross
[her advice for aspiring artists) Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don`t think it`s going to be easy. It`s hard!
Aaliyah Haughton
Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It`s not worth it if you are just in it for the money.You have to love it. - On his advice to aspiring actors.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Her advice to aspiring professionals: "My biggest concern is always the students who are working toward a certain career - when they limit themselves to just that one option. They need to know that the world is huge - it`s an ocean, and there are so many ...
Aishwarya Rai
You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced. - On advice to aspiring actors.
Tom Sizemore
His advice to aspiring actors: "Hold on to your dream. Don`t let the people shake you from your dream. Don`t let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don`t let commerce determine what you do exclusively" (Sept/Oct 2006, St...
Avery Brooks
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment. Acting sho...
Chris Sarandon
When aspiring actors ask me how they can make it in this business, I always ask them, Do you really want to act? I did it because I wanted to do it.
Marlee Matlin
Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o` nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.
Ellen Terry
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don`t do it unless you`re willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
Jim Harrison
It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance...
Alice Hoglan
He commented that maybe I could write a mythos tale for a book he would soon edit, called Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Of course I got to work on it right away. Hey, I mean, this should happen to every aspiring writer!
Brian Lumley
Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl`s Center for Philadelphia.
Robert Brady