"Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that."

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Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 7, 2010.

Alan Cumming

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“Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being.”
“I can zero in on a vision of where I want to be in the future. I can see it so clearly in front of me, when I daydream, it's almost a reality. Then I get this easy feeling, and I don't have to be uptight to get there because I already feel like I'm there, that it's just a matter of time.”
“The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust”
“Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.”
“I hate the word famous because it has no substance.”
“I love the earth. If you ask me it's the greatest planet in the world.”
“It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.”
“And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.”

Source : Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.302, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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