"Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way."

-- Blythe Danner

#Profound Quotes #Important Quotes #Acting Quotes

“I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we have brought down from our barbarious ancestors. We have left off the war paint and war whoops, and we shall leave off the hangin' when we get civilized.”
“For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.”

Source : Nikki Grimes (2003). “Bronx Masquerade”, p.42, Penguin
“If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God.”
“And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.”

Source : James Agee (2013). “Cotton Tenants: Three Families”, p.21, Melville House
“What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had things their own way. We are going to have fun competing with them.”
“It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.”
“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.3, Oxford University Press
“comedy ... is much harder to do than drama. It's not true that laugh and the world laughs with you. It's very hard to make a group of people laugh at the same thing; much easier to make them cry at the same thing. ... That's why great comic acting is probably the greatest acting there is.”

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

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