"When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect; to be elated or vain upon it is showing your money before people in want."

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Source : Colley Cibber (1830). “An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian”, p.27

Colley Cibber

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“Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.”
“I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.”
“I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.”
“I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.”
“In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel”
“We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.”
“As a child I watched Mary Poppins so many times I suffered from a condition with my sight. Umdiddleiddleiddleumdiddle Eye.”

Source : FaceBook post by Milton Jones from Feb 06, 2012
“I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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