Day 20/100:

“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.” - Meryl Streep

Day 19/100:

"I always tell the truth.  Even when I lie." - Al Pacino

Day 18/100:

"The art of acting is not to act.  Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact, is bad acting." - Anthony Hopkins

Day 17/100:

"I think that's our job.  To be expressive and daring and go out on a limb. Everybody should live as big and as authentically as they can."  - Geena Davis

Day 16/100:

THIS WEEK: All quotes specifically about Acting.

"All good actors work the same way.  They just stand there on their own two feet and tell the truth."  - James Woods.

Day 15/100:

"Every actor in his heart believe everything bad that's printed about him." - Orson Welles

Day 14/100:

"Be like a duck, my mother used to tell me.  Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath." - Michael Caine

Day 13/100:

"There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them."  - Tony Randall

Day 12/100:

"How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight" - Lana Turner

Day 11/100:

"If you're going to take a job to live on, make sure it's a job that is impossible for you, just really unpleasant.  That way, you won't ever get seduced into thinking, "Gee, I really want to park cars all my life."  That helps keep you on track.  If you hate what you're doing every day, it reminds you of what you want to do." - Lawrence Kasdan

Day 10/100:

"If a man does not know what is impossible, he will do it." - Mike Todd

Day 9/100:

"So what if my telephone is turned off again at home?  Or my electricity is shut off?  Or my credit cards cancelled?  If you don't bet, you don't have a chance to win.  It's so silly in life not to pursue the highest possible thing you can imagine, even if you run the risk of losing it all, because if you don't pursue it, you've lost it anyway.  You can't be an artist and be safe."  - Francis Ford Coppola

Day 8/100:

"I've never been poor, only broke.  Being poor is a frame of mind.  Being broke is only a temporary situation." - Mike Todd

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Day 7/100:

"Don't think.  Thinking is the enemy of creativity.  It's self conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.  You can't try to do things.  You simply must do things." - Ray Bradbury

Day 6/100:

"The art of acting is not to act.  Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact, is bad acting."  - Anthony Hopkins

Day 5/100:

"I never learned as much in the classroom as I did staring out a window and imagining things." - Robert Redford

Day 4/100:

"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean." - Christopher Reeve

Day 3/100:

"Every wonderful thing we want to do in our lives is already in us.  We just gotta find it.  There's nothing we're ever going to do that we can't do right now." - Jon Turtletaub

Day 2/100:

"Success is always someone else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself." - Jack Lemmon

Day 1/100: (One of my favorite quotes of all time to start):

"You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret.  Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world."  - Charlie Chaplin

actortommalloy.blogspot.com

Hello, all!  Never had a blog before, but I figured now is the time to start.  It took me a while to figure out what this blog would be for.  I created the site and the layout, then let it go.  I wanted to let it sit there and have the idea for my blog come to me through the universe.

And it did!

Over the years I've collected various quotes about acting, writing, directing, producing and filmmaking.  These quotes I collected were to give me inspiration and lift me up when I was feeling down, or the crushing weight of the film business was too much to bear.  

I thought to myself, what if I could post one quote a day, so my friends and co-workers in the film business could be inspired, uplifted, and motivated as well!  I counted all my quotes, and I found 86 of them in my files.  86 approved by me!  I'm guessing I can find 14 more in the 3-4 month period it will take to post all the quotes... bringing it up to an even 100 days of inspiration!

Starting on March 4th, I will post a quote a day, for 100 days.  If you're inspired, share the quotes with your friends, or, better yet, share the blog address!  But no matter what, I hope at least one quote gives you the motivation they've all given me...

Best regards,

Tom Malloy
www.tommalloy.com