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My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.


David Rabe

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NICHOLSON BAKER I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowt...
MIKE WHITE Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.
SCOTT CAAN Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
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BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I wa...
ERNIE HUDSON I can confirm that we have had correspondence from solicitors acting on David Blunkett's behalf.
CHANNEL FOUR I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
ERIC BOGOSIAN 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 abandoned my second novel completely. Writing 'Kavalier & Clay,' I had several moments...
MICHAEL CHABON Once Thaddeus found out that David Miller was going to run, he decided to step back and throw his su...
BOB STORMAN I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He g...
JONAH HILL There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the div...
SAM SHEPARD My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
HALLE BERRY I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high schoo...
GREG GRUNBERG I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe...
RICHARD SCHIFF My reasoning was okay but I was misguided in not talking to David
JENSEN BUTTON I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.
DANNY STRONG At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into...
ELENA ROGER Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to cha...
DAVID NICHOLLS Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the re...
TOM FELTON I was 18 when I got my first acting job.
JAIME WINSTONE Once I committed to acting, this has been it.
ERNIE HUDSON It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD A dollar a pound? ... You know broccoli rabe is $2.99 in the store, a pound.
BARBARA COOK My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.
BEN SAVAGE My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I w...
CAROL BURNETT It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I migh...
ERIK LARSON I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to...
ANN NOCENTI I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line wor...
JEFFREY BROWN Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out ...
TANA FRENCH Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a ...
BRYAN GREENBERG Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
BRET EASTON ELLIS It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart ...
HUGH JACKMAN Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
KARA HAYWARD I asked David once, 'What does it look like downfield?' ... And he said, 'Dude, they're covered.'
STEVE MCKINNEY When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the w...
EMILY BERRINGTON When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own.
KAAVYA VISWANATHAN It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing...
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RICK WAKEMAN One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things...
AASIF MANDVI I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enou...
FELICIA DAY My early acting was ingenue stuff.
SARITA CHOUDHURY All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. ...
ISAAC HAYES I haven't modelled since I was 12 - that was a one-time thing, and I did it as a kid to make a l...
KYLE SCHMID I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I though...
DAVID BOWIE Once I finished writing the script, I couldn't find my Pandi. It was actually little difficult t...
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VAN HEFLIN Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.
JACQUELINE SUSANN My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.
NINA CONTI I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is de...
DAVID RABE and I'm proud of her.
DAVID RABE Now Louisiana has been laid low by the violence of Mother Nature, ... We are grateful for your prese...
DAVID RABE Those the River Keeps,
DAVID RABE Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and...
DAVID RABE Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For...
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DAVID RABE I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense...
DAVID RABE I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
LANCE BASS I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.
WOODY HARRELSON It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and cre...
CAMILLA BELLE Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl...
JEFF COHEN Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.
CHINA MIEVILLE Mostly she just loved sitting down and writing. For being a black female growing up in Los Angeles i...
GREG BEAR David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and...
TIMOTHY SIMONS I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music...
WERNER HERZOG Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
GABY HOFFMANN I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I reali...
JOHN CUSACK It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and...
CAMILLA BELLE The weird thing about my relationship with Reince is we were pretty good friends when I was a politi...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.
NICK FROST I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. L...
HARUKI MURAKAMI During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there...
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AARON TVEIT When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six mon...
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BRADLEY MOSS I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue...
PAT CONROY I think I have a love for TV hosts. I can't help it. Ted Koppel was my first crush when I was three....
DREW BARRYMORE My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.
LALAINE I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of ...
JOHN HURT I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's '...
COLMAN DOMINGO I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
LAURA DERN I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.
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JAIME NELSON In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas. . . a cosmonaut of inner spa...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, ...
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DAVID EINHORN There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.
DAVID EINHORN On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn...
DAVID EINHORN Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and yo...
DAVID EINHORN Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ...
DAVID CRYSTAL I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one coun...
DAVID HILBERT Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe...
DAVID MIXNER If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to ...
DAVID HALBERSTAM I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to...
DAVID TENNANT I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up...
DAVID STRATHAIRN A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,...
DAVID LYNCH Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in...
DAVID HOCKNEY It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my fi...
DAVID HUME Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom...
DAVID WHYTE The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
DAVID HUME Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
DAVID HILBERT But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course o...
DAVID RITTENHOUSE I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I'd b...
DAVID HEARN