"Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't a personality such as Jack Gilbert's, for instance, that attracts women and makes them like me for myself. When I am on the screen I must make them forget me entirely and think only of my acting."

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

William Powell

#Thinking Quotes #Personality Quotes #Acting Quotes

“We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.”
“Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.”
“As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon...So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.”
“Anxiety is not to be managed it is a sin that needs to be repented of”
“There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.”
“I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.”
“Cold is our element and winter's air Brings voices as of lions coming down.”
“Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.”

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