"The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to follow the emotional truth of what you have to do under the imaginary circumstances. And as you develop you become confident. You come to believe in what you're doing and trust it because it's out of you."

-- Sanford Meisner

#Believe Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Acting Quotes

“Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.
“Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?”
“Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.”
“I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a distributor to come into Canada with it, because I think it is a wild and crazy romp that really tells things like it is.”
“My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.”
“Unless I have enough personal power to keep commitments in my daily life, I will be unable to wield magical power. To work magic, I need a basic belief in my ability to do things and cause things to happen. That belief is generated and sustained by my daily actions.”
“My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.”
“Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.”

Source : "A designer's art". Book by Paul Rand, 1968.

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