"Acting is a really insular thing."

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Source : "Taking it seriously". Interview with Libby Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2000.

Robert Carlyle

“One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.”
“I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.”
“I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.”
“it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.”
“Chance is the only source of true novelty.”

Source : Life Itself (p. 82)
“Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.”
“I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you canâ€™t hide anything â€¦ as you can in words.”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.286, Univ of California Press
“No one ever fell in love gracefully.”

Source : Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept

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