"I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards"

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

Gerard Depardieu

#Character Quotes #Play Quotes

“When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice... If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.”
“The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.”
“There's power in the truth, just like there's power in making the right choice”
“My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?”

Source : Michael Ventura (1993). “Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment”, Spring Pubns
“Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.”
“Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.”
“I am a political person, though not with a big P.”
“If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.”

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