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“I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do no blooming, internal droughts only the waters of imagination and psychic release can civilize.”
Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA
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“Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.”
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“Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.”
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“There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.”
Source : Max Eastman (1948). “Enjoyment of living”
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“Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.”
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“I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.”
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“When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.”