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“Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.”
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“Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.”
Source : Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.108, Anchor
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“I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.”
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“...but I’m trying to be inconspicuous.†Cinder considered telling him it wasn't working but thought better of it. The lack of a throng of screaming girls surrounding her booth was probably evidence that it was working better than she suspected. Instead of looking like a royal heartthrob, he just looked crazy.”
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“Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot...”
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“There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.”
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“He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.”
Source : "The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs".
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“I loved my time on All My Children. That show was a family to me. I am so sad that daytime is slowly fading away. I owe so much to daytime. I learned so much about my craft and I made so many wonderful friends there and I am so sad that it is all going away.”
Source : Interview with Shane Saunders, www.csifiles.com. April 2011. 
