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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.


Ed Asner

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Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner.
ED ASNER I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to...
FIONA APPLE People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it...
BRIAN BLESSED I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'...
OLIVIA CULPO Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify...
BILLY UNGER Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, ...
MORGAN FREEMAN I'm happy that the league is looking better and better. We're making progress as a conference, and m...
TOM IZZO Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as...
TOM HANKS I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different fe...
CHAD EVERETT I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no...
EDDIE MARSAN I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.
PORTIA DE ROSSI I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I l...
PETER JURASIK News, after all, is a spin of words and pictures. It's a kind of music. There are beats in a new...
ROBERT KRULWICH We really think of ourselves as phenomenal people. We're still a work in progress.
CHAD BAKER I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing ...
VALERIA GOLINO I'm not as good a singer as I am an actor. So that's why I - the stories I like so much is b...
ANDY GRIFFITH So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or ot...
KATE UPTON Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, t...
HUGH GRANT It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in ...
RICK RUBIN My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is n...
DAVID HAREWOOD I had my first screen-acting class in March 2015, and I was, like, 18, turning 19, so it's a ris...
KATHERINE LANGFORD I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have th...
ADRIAN TOMINE I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I u...
NATHAN FILLION I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I...
IDINA MENZEL I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like ...
JOHNNY VEGAS I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the of...
ANTHONY FOXX I love playing other people's work. I love acting.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on ...
JAKE BUSEY I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had...
HAILEE STEINFELD I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - ...
CHRISTINE LAKIN Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work....
DAKOTA FANNING I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It's about time Obama went to work.
RUSH LIMBAUGH People think of me as a privileged young girl born to wear a chiffon party dress. I was born into a ...
EMILIA FOX All my tattoos, they've been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a y...
COLIN KAEPERNICK It's really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I'v...
DINA MERRILL As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's o...
SAM DONALDSON I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It'...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
P. J. HARVEY It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling...
MARK WAHLBERG I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private ...
HANNAH WARE I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It...
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior colle...
JOHN CORBETT Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in fo...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people ...
DAVE DEBRONKART I definitely still have my hand in acting. I don't think I would be able to walk away from it. I...
BLAKE MCIVER EWING I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it&...
APOLO OHNO It's still a work in progress. Every year gets better.
MATT COOKSON This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.
DENNIS FARINA A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn'...
BRIT MARLING I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very...
JOHN POLSON I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I t...
PAUL ALLEN People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman a...
CINDY SHERMAN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and ...
AASIF MANDVI We're still trying to get together. We're a work in progress.
MARCUS HUNT That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, a...
FRAN KRANZ It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not...
JAMES BAY My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.&#...
LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These...
MICHAEL MOORE Before we went I wasn't sure if I wanted to go into engineering, but now that I went there and spent...
ANDY NEARY As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm stil...
JASON DAY I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's...
ERICH SEGAL I do love writing. It doesn't come to me as readily as I think acting does. I think acting is in...
DAVID DASTMALCHIAN I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and he's incredibly charismatic, ...
JONATHAN JACKSON Ed moved into the hotel so he could work with us,
JOHN ELDERFIELD First, psychotherapy is an art. It is not a science (the human-beings-are-laboratory-rats mentality ...
JACK S. WILLIS As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in p...
MARCO RUBIO Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in...
KAREN TRAVISS As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it&#...
CHRIS EVANS The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny ...
DENIS LEARY I'm really getting into acting and TV. 'Sports Illustrated' is a big, iconic brand I'...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes...
MARA WILSON The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save you...
DAVID BOWIE Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The beautiful thing about this is that it's an unbiased survey. We invited people from all sides of ...
PATRICIA JONES I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right...
SCOTT MCKENZIE It's a still a work in progress. But I think the bye weekend came at a good time.
RENE PORTLAND Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.
BEVERLEY MITCHELL When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you'r...
TANA FRENCH I went to acting school, and there were twenty other actors in my class who were exceptional. It'...
BILLY CRUDUP When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the ...
JOANNA LUMLEY Life. It works better if your already smart.
GREAT APE I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you...
RYAN KWANTEN Imagine the thrill for us going on the Ed Sullivan Show, especially when they told us it was the big...
PAUL MCCARTNEY They are all going to reopen as something, but what they are going to be is still a work in progress...
KATHRYN GALLAGHER In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in w...
JACK KORNFIELD I love acting. It's a lot of fun work, interesting work, and you get to work with some very inte...
DAVID ALPAY There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard...
EDDIE MARSAN I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher'...
DAMON LINDELOF I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is ...
SCOTT BAKULA The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be te...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.
CARSON DALY Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility...
STEVEN YEUN If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's...
JESSE EISENBERG Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believin...
HALEY JOEL OSMENT I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a ...
ADAM SCOTT Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction ...
RIVER PHOENIX I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity ...
FRANK DEFORD Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of...
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ED O'BRIEN We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
ED O'BRIEN We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
ED O'BRIEN But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's...
ED O'BRIEN I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
ED O'BRIEN What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the s...
ED O'BRIEN Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
ED O'BRIEN There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special t...
ED O'BRIEN Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn'...
ED O'BRIEN We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it...
ED O'BRIEN Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
ED O'BRIEN We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
ED O'BRIEN It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
ED O'BRIEN All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring ab...
ED MCMAHON The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way dow...
ED MCMAHON Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.
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