Gian Maria Volonte Quotes

Being an actor is a matter of choice that, above all, takes place at an existential level: either you express the conservative structures of society and are nothing more that a tool in the hands of power, or you address the progressive components of this society in an attempt to settle a revolutionary relation between art and life.

Gian Maria Volonte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: April 9, 1933 - December 6, 1994

Topics

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For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

Jessica Lange

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Films don't hold the answers I'm looking for... Would you not be so much more interested in finding out that Bigfoot existed than in watching a really good movie?

Megan Fox

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Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

Robert Smith

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The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Jeff Lindsay

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A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

Toni Servillo

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I'm not much of a baby freak - I like them when they're older.

Julia Sawalha

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The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

Josh Hutcherson

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I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

Dennis Eckersley

GameRememberToo MuchGoPitching

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

Claud Cockburn

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'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.

Pico Iyer

TechnologyGreatPeopleDataForget

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

Thomas Mars

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Peanut Butter Wolf is my relaxing music, my lunch music, my chilling music.

Norman Reedus

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