I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. ~ Sir Laurence Olivier.
In order to broaden my horizons I have undertaken the 50 Film Challenge . The aim is to watch 50 films in a year. Here’s my tally so far:
- Veronica Guerin
- True Crime
- Still Crazy
- Irresistable
- Teaching Miss Tingle
- Before and After
- Where Eagles Dare
- Freaky Friday
- Night at the Museum
- Unforgiven
- Postcards from the Edge
- A Perfect World
- Any Which Way You Can
- The Da Vinci Code
- Bedazzled
- Death Becomes Her
- Kate and Leopold
- The Women
- Mean Girls
- One Hour Photo
- Laws of Attraction
- 9 to 5
- Notes on a Scandal
- Stepford Wives (remake)
- Sex and the City
- Madagascar 2
- Finding Nemo
- Shall We Dance?
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- The Shipping News
- Brokeback Mountain
- What a Girl Wants
- The Deer Hunter
- Sleuth
- About A Boy
- Basic Instinct
- All About Eve
- A Prairie Home Companion
- Walk the Line
- Thelma and Louise
- Stage Fright
- Shine
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Men in Black
- Transamerica
- Dancing at Lughnasa
- The Pianist
- Venus
- Brief Encounter
- Howard’s End
- The African Queen
- Sophie’s Choice
- Laura
- The Bridges of Madison County
- Scoop
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Hours
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Troy
- As You Like It
- Plenty
- Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion
- Keeping Mum
- The Devil Wears Prada
- The Contractor
- The Lake House
- Snowcake
- Nanny McPhee
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Mamma Mia!
- Madagascar
Spoken by Madame Arkadina in the General category with the tag(s) 2009, lists, movies.
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you’re halfway there. ~ Ian Holm.
- Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
- All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
- All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really…that’s the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn’t filled with inspiration, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?
- You just have to keep on doing what you do. It’s the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
- Everybody is interesting. Everybody has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
- We’re all sustained by relationships. Sometimes it’s by marriages, great friendships, by a sustaining relationship to a parent. But that’s the glue of society.
- The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
On confidence: Meryl Streep admits she has “varying degrees of confidence and self-loathing…. You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent. It could be about not feeling able to achieve a certain scene or about an emotion you feel you weren’t able to get to… Or that you’re boring and they’re going to find out that you don’t know what you’re doing… any one of those things.”
- Process is clunky, process looks like bad acting, process is not anything you should let anybody see…. It’s like we show you a new building and we show you the plumbing and the sewer line.
- We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration, to keep going on the days that you’re low. We need each other in that way
- Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
- People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.
Spoken by Madame Arkadina in the Quotes category with the tag(s) actors, lists, Meryl Streep.
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You’ve got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator. ~ Ralph Richardson.
