"I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Christopher Eccleston

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“I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.”
“I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.”
“I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!”

Source : Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.”
“I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.”
“It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.”
“That's why we're going to disrupt the lunch," she (Kat) said. "You know," Angus said, "I've got a little C-four that I've been saving for a rainy--" "We're not blowing up my company, Angus," Hale said. "Righto. Carry on, Kitty.”
“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”

Source : Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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