Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Quotes

You know, in this industry, being an openly queer actor or entertainer, you can play the game your way, or you can play it the industry's way. And I decided to play it my way. I played it the industry's way far too long.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: October 21, 1984

Topics

GameLongYouPlayKnowWay

The day I came in and found another actor's name on my dressing room door, and my stuff out in the hall, that was the day I learned my lesson.

Joe Penny

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Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.

Jeremy Renner

CreativeBuildingYouHouseWrong

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'

Jeffrey Combs

JobPeopleTheatreThinkDoingKnow

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

Michael Cerveris

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The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

Stanley Tucci

GreatBlessingRealityProjectOwn

The band feels loose in all the right ways, and it's just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I haven't seen in a while.

Trey Anastasio

PeopleCoolLookingSeeingRight

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.

Toni Braxton

PeopleYouWantYesWholeAround

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

Robert Englund

WiseHorrorAudienceModernOurGag

You have to train the best way that is suited to you, a way that will allow you to progress.

Ronnie Coleman

BestProgressYouTrainWillWay

For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don't attack someone's family.

Michael Nutter

FamilyBusinessChildrenPolitical

You enter strong and you exit strong, and you're going to be OK.

Chris Farley

StrongYouExitGoingOKEnter

I keep making the music I do because I feel very purposeful about making things that would be helpful or quell some loneliness in people. I really needed that when I listened to music growing up and even now, so I don't mind that sense of duty.

Perfume Genius

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