"I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used."

-- Laura Linney

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Cadence Quotes

“Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?”
“My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.”
“I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego.”
“You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work.”
“In the NFL game today, there are a lot of better athletes than I am, and quarterbacks these days are faster than the quarterbacks have always been, they're running like crazy. But I kind of stick to my roots of the disciplined quarterback. You know, I'm doing the same routine every week, studying tapes and working hard, getting ready to play and making good decisions on Sundays.”
“Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.”
“The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.”

Source : Marina Warner (2000). “Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form”, p.69, Univ of California Press

You may also like:

Aaron Eckhart
Film actor
Chesley Sullenberger
Aviator
Colin Firth
Film actor
Emma Thompson
Actress
Jennifer Carpenter
Actress
Martine McCutcheon
Singer
Natascha McElhone
Film actress
Oliver Platt
Actor
Paul Giamatti
Actor