"The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas."

-- Basil Wolverton

#Suits Quotes #Pajamas Quotes #Bed Quotes

“I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2011). “Paris Stories”, p.366, New York Review of Books
“Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.”
“I didnâ€™t and donâ€™t want to be a â€˜feminineâ€™ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.”
“Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.”
“I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.”

Source : "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.
“Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.”
“I am better at math than spelling.”
“All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.”

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

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