From the old movie "Fame" (1980) :
"We don't want you to perform, we want to see who you are. Use your own experiences. Be simple, be honest, but most important, be yourself !"
"There are 50,000 people walking around calling themselves actors, and may be 500 are making a living at it. Most of those do commercials to pay the rent. The rest wait tables, clean other people's apartment, living on welfare and hope. Do not think talent's enough to get you through. You gotta have strong techniques, a good agent, and most of all, a thick skin. Because, now you're part of an underpriviliged minority, and you're going to suffer... cattle calls, the humiliation, the rejection...so you'd better like yourself a lot, and that's all you've got to work with - use yourself, your voice, your experiences... acting is the hardest profession in the world !"
"An actor must develop an acute sense memory. So concentrate on how you deal with things in your world - how you wash your face or hold your fork or lift your cup, comb your hair. Observe and study your own mechanicalness. See if you can catch yourself in the very act of doing or saying somthing, see if your action and reaction fall into patterns and what those patterns are. In particular, pay close attention to the physical world. Isolate and concentrate on the details."
"We are going to turn the observations inward and work on recreating emotional states : fear, joy, sorrow, anger... and it will be more difficult because you'll have to expose more of you, what's on the inside of yourself."
"A pie in the face comes with the job... means a real artist must never be afraid of what other people will say about him."
"How bright our planets go shooting out into space depends on how much we contributed to the earthly brilliance of this world ... and I meant to be a major contributor !"
"I thought I was just going through a stage.. that's everyone told me. And it never worried me when I was 10. Except everyone told me the same thing at 12 and 14. So finally, my analyst leveled with me. He said it was probably a life choice. It's funny, "gay" used to mean such a happy kind of word once. Not that it bothers me. I'm pretty well-adjusted, really. I mean, never being happy, isn't the same as being unhappy, is it?"
"I don't know who I am, and I never will if I don't assert myself... I'm 16 years old. I've got to assert myself sometime, don't I?"
"... Because he didn't think living was such a happy thing, you know? We can't have happy people walking on this planet. Everybody's gotta be so goddamn serious. Everyone's gotta stay in business and suffer so the fucking witch doctors and the deodorant-spray people and plastic surgeons could stay in business. And we can all go fucking pray to the asshole God up there that fucked it up in the first place!"
"We made a mistake. Sometimes, it just doesn't work out.... Better isn't good enough. I don't think you'll ever be good enough.. You don't have it. That's a hard thing to hear, and it's not a pleasant thing to say, but it's the truth. I'm saving you a lot of time and pain by saying it to you now..."
"That's not just great, that's wonderful, that's fantastic! It's like electricity. You're out there, those faces are out there, starring at you and you lead them in and you draw them in... then, you hit them with the juice... and bam ! Boy, they fucking explode! And that power goes back and forth! The next thing you know, you are making them laugh. That's the meanest high ... that beats dope, that beats sex... I mean, I love fucking acting!"
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Fame is about knowing yourself, pursuing dreams, finding love, youth and passion.
Will watch the new movie and musical by APA !
http://www.hkapa.edu/asp/general/general_performance_details.asp?performanceid=4427&lang=tch&mode=gui (APA performance)
演藝音樂劇：《我要高飛》
18/11/2009 19:45
19/11/2009 19:30
20/11/2009 19:30
21/11/2009 14:30
21/11/2009 19:30
演藝戲劇院
票價: $45-$100 粵語歌舞劇，附中英文字幕
本節目為香港演藝學院校慶25周年演出
導演/翻譯：陳敢權
音樂總監：黃華豐
編舞：敏迪貝蒂
粵語填詞：陳文剛
佈景設計：丘嘉明
服裝設計：陳重因
燈光設計：張國永
音響設計：楊我華
主要演員：麥智鈞、張紫琪、劉俊謙、黃天恩、黃安婷、李頊珩、劉亭君、唐曉楓、藍真珍、馮志佑、張雅麗、梁依倩、陳郁憲、蔡定祥
《我要高飛》描寫紐約大都會的一所演藝中學裡，一班優秀的舞蹈系、音樂系、戲劇系學生之學習生涯。這是一班「明日之星」找尋自我及奮鬥掙扎的故事。在這精英學校裡，他們對演藝的熱誠受到嚴峻考驗，也面對著種種成長的挑戰，愛情友情的抉擇。他們努力期望可以一舉成名，才發現天賦才能還得配合紀律培訓方可獲取成功，並了解到真正的「名聲」絕非「一剎光輝」這麼簡單。
《我要高飛》是一個關於追求理想的故事，連場勁歌熱舞展現了年輕演員們的活力，揮盡演藝人戲裡戲外的熱切與激情。
http://hk.movies.yahoo.com/movie.html?id=mcl_fame (2009 movie)
