"Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing."

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Jean-Louis Barrault

#Art Quotes #Acting Quotes #Coughing Quotes

“I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.”
“I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.”

Source : "The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street". Book by by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273, 1992.
“My biggest dream is to be able to be in a movie or some great TV show where I get to dance, and it's about a contemporary dancer of some kind.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.”
“If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.”

Source : 1977 My Mother, My Self, ch.1.
“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”
“Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.”
“So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.”

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