"My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't know how to help you as an actor, but if you want to be an actor, give it a go for a year. Get a job. And if you don't get a job, then we're going to reevaluate and you're going to go back to school." And I thought that was a fair thing."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

John Kapelos

#Jobs Quotes #Dad Quotes #School Quotes

“However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.”
“Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it.”
“To dream the impossible dream, to reach the unreachable star!”

Source : Mitch Leigh, Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion (1966). “Man of La Mancha: a musical play”
“Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.”
“There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.”
“Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.”
“Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.”
“The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.”

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