A Quote by Adrian Pasdar

That's what frees up an actor: when you don't have to be responsible to likability. — © Adrian Pasdar
That's what frees up an actor: when you don't have to be responsible to likability.

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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don't feel like you're in good hands.
Every day the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] would come up with some amazing solution and [make it easy] to put yourself in their hands. There's something really lovely about knowing you're working with directors who know exactly what they want and exactly what they're looking for, and they're not going to move on until they have it. That, as an actor, frees you up a lot because you can [try different approaches] and they'll only use what's appropriate.
It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country into debt on useless wars and pointless pork projects to buy votes. It's responsible for bailing out the banks instead of standing up for the people the banks cheated. It's responsible for plenty.
Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.
There's this constant narrative of anxieties: Is the U.S. in decline? Is China rising? People forget... no other country is trying to play the role we play. They're not signing up to be responsible for security in the Middle East, responsible for the global economy, responsible for enforcing international norms.
Unless you've been in the job as a head coach, and certainly at the Premier League level and elite level, it's stressful. You're responsible for everything. You're responsible for how the team plays, if they don't turn up you're responsible for that, your job is to get them playing.
When you open up to awareness, it frees up your whole life.
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.
You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.
I have more time to work; I just do. Because once your kids are up and running, that frees you up a good 20, 30, hours a week.
Acting is all about likability.
Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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