"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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Source : "Interview With Director Richard Donner". Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. May 1, 2001.

Richard Donner

#Trying Quotes #Actors Quotes

“Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.”
“We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.”

Source : "Charles H. Townes: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.”
“I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.”
“Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden.... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.”
“Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.”
“Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?”
“The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.”

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