"Acting is one of the professions I most respect because if you tried something and you can't do it and you thought at one time in your life - and of course, I did at one time of my life want it - and you realize that you can't do it that you can't just switch your personality that way, then you are in awe of people who can."

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Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

Sherry Lansing

#People Quotes #Personality Quotes #Acting Quotes

“The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.”
“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”
“There's more to life than movies.”
“True or true? Yes or yes?”
“I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.”

Source : "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.
“To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. ... He recognizes no national goal except as it is the consensus of the goals that the citizens severally serve. He recognizes no national purpose except as it is the consensus of the purposes for which the citizens severally strive.”
“The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.”

Source : Adam Phillips (2017). “In Writing”, p.223, Penguin UK
“I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.”

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