"Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too."

-- Ninon de L'Enclos

#People Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Acting Quotes

“It's very hard to win without any problems. To win, you have to fight. And many times, this fight means to indispose in certain ways with some people, to prevail your beliefs. Your point of view, your ideas and your personality above everything. If you don`t fight hard, you lose your own way. And if you lose your own way, you`re nobody. So, to achieve this line of conduct, you have to fight very hard. And in many times, you really have to fight.”
“My vision is to inspire others to find purpose and happiness.”
“One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.”
“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”

Source : Espana, 20 Nov. 1920
“Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.”
“Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.”
“A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.”

Source : Jean Shepherd (2010). “The Ferrari in the Bedroom”, p.11, Broadway Books
“Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time.”

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