"Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'"

-- Bill Nighy

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“The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.”

Source : William Stringfellow, Bill Wylie Kellermann (1994). “A Keeper of the Word: Selected Writings of William Stringfellow”, p.165, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.”
“Dullness is a misdemeanour.”
“This is my homeland no one can kick me out.”
“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.”

Source : Quoted in Goodrich and Bry GeorgiaO'Keeffe (1970).
“How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.”
“Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.”
“Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.”

Source : Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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