"There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians."

-- Georges Pompidou

#Gambling Quotes #Three Quotes #Calling Quotes

“Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.”
“I'm very fortunate that I get asked to do very different kinds of roles and I realize how much I enjoy that. I enjoy the challenge of transformation. There are actors who play one character, or a certain kind of character, the whole of their lives. I really relish the opportunity to have the challenge to totally transform.”
“And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.”
“To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 169), 1895.
“I feel so confident and awesome and sexy when I'm with people who are older than me, and I've always been surrounded by people who are older than me. But to be vital in comedy, you have to exist in a world that's dominated by young people.”
“Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.”
“Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.”
“Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.”

Source : Song: At Seventeen, Album: Between the Lines, 1975

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