Jean Stapleton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.
-- Jean Stapleton

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Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.
-- Jean Stapleton

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On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
-- Jean Stapleton

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First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.
-- Jean Stapleton

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Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.
-- Jean Stapleton

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The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.
-- Jean Stapleton

#Government #Oneness #Diversity

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.
REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.
But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it, but costs those whom he planned on using that money to buy from. The same goes for wars. The warlords--of war and peace--destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace.
If you look up into His face and say, "Yes, Lord, whatever it costs," at that moment He'll flood your Life with His presence and power.
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.

Jean Stapleton famous quotes

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