Jean-Louis Barrault famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.
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You have to wake up a virgin each morning.
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The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.
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Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.
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When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn.
-- Jean-Louis Barrault
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A man without patience is a lamp without oil.
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Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
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I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
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Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.
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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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I think I have a lot of crazy layers.
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Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.
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There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.
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