Colleen Dewhurst famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  • Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

  • Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

  • Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.

  • One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

  • I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

  • It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

  • Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

  • Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

  • I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.