"Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance."

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Source : Larry Moss (2004). “The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor”, p.13, Bantam

Larry Moss

#Teaching Quotes #Memorable Quotes #Fire Quotes

“There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.”

Source : Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”
“I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.”
“I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.”
“While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.”
“Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.”
“That's the thing I loved about drag queens, life was a constant movie; no matter how ridiculously things didn't match they would sacrifice everything for the pose, and I was definitely into the pose.”
“When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.”
“Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.”

Source : Tom Landry, Gregg A. Lewis (1990). “Tom Landry: an autobiography”, Zondervan

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