"The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself."

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Source : The George Washington University Interview, nsarchive2.gwu.edu. January 18, 1997.

Milos Forman

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.”
“I am in love, and he's the one. Obviously I thought the one before him was the one and the one before that was the one, too. Frankly, I'm so much into the idea of being in love that anyone out of about 3 million could be the one. But no, this one now is definitely the one, the very one.”
“Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.”
“Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”
“I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.”

Source : "Pharaoh's revenge" by Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.
“I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.”

Source : "All in the Timing". Interview with Scott Proudfit, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
“I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.”

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