"...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination."

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Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

Minnie Maddern Fiske

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“Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.”

Source : Mike Royko (2001). “For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko”, p.13, University of Chicago Press
“Iâ€™m saying your name in the grocery store, Iâ€™m saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music thatâ€™s been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull...”
“Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.”
“A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation.”
“I'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall.”
“You don't disrupt genius at work.”

Source : "Dylan O’Brien Talks THE FIRST TIME, TEEN WOLF Season 3, Shawn Levy's THE INTERNSHIP, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 17, 2012.
“Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.”
“The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.”

Source : John Hersey (1970). “Letter to the alumni”, Not Avail

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