Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
Jane FondaRead
I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote reflects the wonder of storytelling through performance and the inspiration it can provide for aspiring actors.
David Tennant expresses a moment from his childhood when he discovered that the characters on television were not real people but actors bringing stories to life. This realization sparked his passion for acting, highlighting the profound impact that storytelling can have on an individual's aspirations and dreams.
Themes
ActingStorytellingInspirationDreamsChildhood
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a speech at a drama school to motivate students to pursue their passion for acting.
Similar quotes
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.
Martin AmisRead
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
Roger EbertRead
I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to tell many, many stories about themselves, and black filmmakers have not had as many years, as many opportunities, as many films to explore the nuances of our reality.
Ava DuvernayRead
Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.
Jonathan FranzenRead
Music is a defining element of character.
PlatoRead