"I wasn't really a performer by temperament,"

-- Tom Lehrer

#Temperament Quotes #Performers Quotes

“Even if you're popular, there are times when you just feel like you're not a part of things.”
“Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.”
“Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or the concept of pi. The idea of self- ownership is the equivalent of Pythagoras' theorem, of evolution by natural selection, of general relativity, and of quantum theory. Before humankind discovered any of these, it suffered, to varying degrees, in misery and ignorance.”
“The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.”
“The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people.”
“I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.”

Source : "Dominic Cooper Talks the Scope of the Film, Finding the Tone, Returning for Captain America 2, and More on the Set of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 13, 2012.
“Know DEEPLY who you are in Christ or everything else will be tainted.”
“You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.”

Source : "Gore Vidal on the media". Interview with Paul Jay, therealnews.com. July 11, 2007.

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