Quotes by Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

Acting

Self

Technique

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

Artist

People

Reality

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

Art

Commitment

Teach

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

Confidence

Disposition

Hopeful

Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?

Artist

Attention

Looks

Each person has a literature inside them.

Literature

Persons

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Firsts

Ideas

People

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Medication

Underrated

I am interested in personal stories because that’s when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

Heartfelt

People

Stories

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

Dentist

Doctors

Lucky

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Acting

Action

Art

Artist

Assemblage

Attention

Becoming

Believe

Bigger

Body

Car

Caring

Celebrate

Commitment

Communication

Confidence

Country

Dancer

Dark

Dentist

Desire

Discipline

Disposition

Disrespect

Distance

Doctors

Documentaries

Doe

Enough

Environment

Exercise

Exploration

Explorers

Fall

Fashion

Father

Feels

Fighting

Filmmaker

Firsts

Funeral

Giving

Hands

Haute Couture

Heartfelt

Home

Hopeful

Ideas

Identity

Ifs

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Quotes by Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?

Each person has a literature inside them.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

I am interested in personal stories because that’s when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

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