Quotes by Giovanni Ribisi

Giovanni Ribisi

A lot of writers, because they don’t understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

Actors

Feels

Order

Acting is ephemeral. It’s not like making a painting that lasts forever. You’re doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you’re trying to go against the grain.

Acting

Forever

Trying

Do what you’re doing while you’re doing it.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is

Path

Vocation

You Choose

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I’m taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you’re doing yourself an injustice.

Acting

Artist

Crafts

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

Cinema

Sound

Want

I don’t think that many people today, understand the nature of what an improv does for an actor in a specific setting. What an improv does for an actor is help him find the life; it’s the life that an actor’s after.

Doe

People

Thinking

I grew up with Scientology – my parents at one point were clerical. It’s a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it’s had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It’s not a threat or some cult.

Media

People

Philosophy

I just consider myself a committed actor. If a movie is a success, that’s great; I’m happy for that. But I’ve learned just to concentrate on my job and do the best that I can.

Actors

I've Learned

Jobs

I love talking about Scientology.

Scientology

Talking

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Actors

Add

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Artist

Believe

Blame

Careers

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Choices

Cinema

Crafts

Criteria

Directors

Doe

Dope

Fall

Father

Feels

Film

Focus

Forever

Giving

Growing Up

Helping

Home

Hype

I've Learned

Important

Jobs

Made

Media

Mother

Order

Past

Path

People

Philosophy

Phones

Quality

Scientology

Sound

Tabloids

Talking

Thinking

Trying

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Quotes by Giovanni Ribisi

Giovanni Ribisi

A lot of writers, because they don’t understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

Acting is ephemeral. It’s not like making a painting that lasts forever. You’re doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you’re trying to go against the grain.

Do what you’re doing while you’re doing it.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I’m taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you’re doing yourself an injustice.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

I don’t think that many people today, understand the nature of what an improv does for an actor in a specific setting. What an improv does for an actor is help him find the life; it’s the life that an actor’s after.

I grew up with Scientology – my parents at one point were clerical. It’s a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it’s had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It’s not a threat or some cult.

I just consider myself a committed actor. If a movie is a success, that’s great; I’m happy for that. But I’ve learned just to concentrate on my job and do the best that I can.

I love talking about Scientology.

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