"Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too."

-- Hattie Morahan

#Believe Quotes #Acting Quotes #Down And Quotes

“I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.”
“God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!”
“My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.”
“It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.”
“The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality -- to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.”
“I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.”

Source : Roseline Bacou, Odilon Redon (1987). “Odilon Redon: pastels”, George Braziller
“Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.”
“You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality off.”

You may also like:

Aaron Staton
Actor
Anna Maxwell Martin
Actress
Bill Condon
Screenwriter
Dan Stevens
Actor
Hattie McDaniel
Actress
Janet McTeer
Actress
Laura Linney
Actress
Nick Dear
Writer
Saffron Burrows
Actress