"One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Ashley. I was a waiter, and I had about three lines. And I was ready! I had been around people like that, and I knew they were just actors. All the work I had done, it was all there, and I felt like I knew all the mechanics."

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

Tobin Bell

#Svengali Quotes #People Quotes #Roles Quotes

“I remembered getting the script for the auditions [of Aladdin], I had asked someone there if improvs were allowed, and he said everyone is sticking to the script. I said to myself that they are either going to love me or hate me. I was crossing out lines and throwing in my own lines. I went into the room and started doing things. They were like, "This boy is nuts! We should keep him." That's how it all came about.”

Source : Source: www.blackfilm.com
“Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.”
“Moses made mistakes, Abraham made mistakes, David made mistakes, Elijah made mistakes...”
“Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.”
“Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?”
“In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.”

Source : Max Heindel (1921). “Mysteries of the Great Operas”
“When you go to a film festival as an audience member, it's so much fun. But when you bring your own film there, you carry so much stress and excitement.”
“The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.”

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