"Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?"

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

Michael Gambon

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“I want babies too," he said huskily. "Daughters as beautiful as you are.”
“Thats the fun of going to a high school reunion: its seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.”
“the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.”

Source : Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”
“Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.”
“Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.”
“The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.”

Source : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.76, Courier Corporation
“The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was not economic, besides being morally wrong. Slavery was destined to be abolished, whether for economic reasons or moral reasons matters not, but the international intriguers were not going to wait for voluntary abolition to rob them of their trump card.”
“Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.”

Source : Joan Rothfuss, Jasper Johns, Walker Art Center (2003). “Past things and present: Jasper Johns since 1983”

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