I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.
Richard E. GrantRead
I always panic on the first day of work. You can do all the Stanislavsky-backstory homework, but when that moment arrives and you are in the clothes, hair, and makeup of somebody else, and you're saying the words created by somebody else - I never know how to do it. It's a complete mystery to me.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote reflects the anxiety and unpredictability that comes with embodying a character in acting.
Richard E. Grant expresses the feelings of apprehension and confusion that arise when stepping into a new role as an actor. Despite preparation and understanding of the character's background, the actual experience of performing can be daunting and filled with uncertainty, highlighting the complexities of acting and artistry.
Themes
ActingAnxietyPerformanceCharacterArtistry
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be shared in a drama class to discuss the emotional challenges of acting.
More from Richard E. Grant
All quotes →I was brought up to appreciate the here and now, and, knowing this is your only life, to view death as an inevitable and reassuring end.
Richard E. GrantRead
Similar quotes
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.
Lincoln KirsteinRead
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture
Raymond ChandlerRead
I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
Kara WalkerRead
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
Arthur EricksonRead
Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.
Philip PullmanRead
Where words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich HeineRead