“Aaron’s directions were like “hump this, twirl on that.”
— Adam Chanler-Berat on Aaron Tveit playing Gabe in Next to Normal. (via
jennabobena)
norahringma:
“I, just like so many other people, will always ask those that look at me not to pigeonhole me and stereotype me as sometimes even as a male or a black actor.
I am an actor. I am employed to play people and people are all sorts of shapes and sizes, they’re all different accents. They’re all over the place. I will want that to be true for me.
But, I’ll also make sure I look at myself in the same way. I won’t look at myself and go, “Well, I’m a black man so I have to …” Well, I don’t have to, I can do what I like.”
Adrian Lester, actor, on casting — as heard on BBC Radio 4 Front Row
Photo: bbc.co.uk
“This place is like an insane asylum for adolescent girls.”
— Danny in Bed Bath & Beyond (The Mindy Project)
Mindy:
Are you hiding in here?
Danny:
From what? Total happiness? No!
“E and R belong together”
—
-my computer keyboard (via teethncurls)
#my computer ships it the ship to end all ships
“We might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, as you choose, pronounce O and P, or Orestes and Pylades.”
“Fun is something other people can have while I’m working.”
— Joss Whedon, The Avengers DVD commentary (via
tintanner)
“Illiteracy? What does that word even mean?”
“I had so much dry wit in this movie that it was like a desert of wit.”
— Joss Whedon, The Avengers DVD commentary (via
tintanner)
“I get very nervous,” Evans explains. “I shit the bed if I have to present something on stage or if I’m doing press. Because it’s just you.” He’s been known to walk out of press conferences, to freeze up and go silent during the kind of relaxed-yet-high-stakes meetings an actor of his stature is expected to attend: “Do you know how badly I audition? Fifty percent of the time I have to walk out of the room. I’m naturally very pale, so I turn red and sweat. And I have to literally walk out. Sometimes mid-audition. You start having these conversations in your brain. ‘Chris, don’t do this. Chris, take it easy. You’re just sitting in a room with a person saying some words, this isn’t life. And you’re letting this affect you? Shame on you.’”
“There is no evil angel but Love.”
— William Shakespeare in
Love’s Labour’s Lost (via
samvandiest)
“
Dennis: Well, I—I do seem to remember you calling the guy a faggot.
Dee: Yeah, I absolutely called him a faggot, but he ordered Chardonnay. What was I supposed to do?
”
“Dee? She’s constantly being crushed. She’ll bounce back, she always does… Or she won’t. It doesn’t matter. I don’t care about that.”
— Dennis (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia)
“Queerbaiting is what most shows with (predominantly white) male leads do. Put a little gay subtext in there to stir up interest, and then every so often go to the press, shout NO HOMO NO HOMO NO HOMO at the interviewer, and everything is fine.
Did I say fine? I meant appropriative and gross as hell.”
—
this wonderful post explaining the many fails of Moffat when it comes to writing sexual orientation. (via
lydiamartinis)
“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
