"I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material."

-- Troy Donahue

#Actors Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Materials Quotes

“I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.”

Source : "Up Front". Book by Bill Mauldin, 1945.
“Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry.”
“It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.”
“I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.”
“The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.467
“I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.”
“Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you.”
“You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.”

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