"You know it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try."

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Source : Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.16, Vintage

Sanford Meisner

“I have a very well organized closet.”
“The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn't make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.”
“Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.”
“There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked from our home garden. When we plant the flowers, water them, pick the flowers, make the garland and take it to the temple, thoughts of God alone live in our minds. The Lord accepts anything offered to Him with intense Love. When we buy a garland at a store and place it on the deity it is only a ceremonial act while the other is a garland of pure devotion and an act of love.”
“I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.”
“You know, when I was 14, a kid from our community said to me: â€˜Everyoneâ€™s talking about you, Caleb. They say youâ€™re the chosen one.â€™ That quote always made me so nervous, that I seriously started to think about my future. I changed a lot during that time.”
“All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.”
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”

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