"We all start out with no discipline, no patience, no perseverance, no determination. We all start out at zero. People say, 'You have talent.' No, the gift is to realize that we all start out even. Whether we messed up or put our best foot forward, with these four qualities, we take care of our mental, physical and spiritual health each day. Am I the best in the world? No. The question is: Am I the best I can be?"

-- Edward James Olmos

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“There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.”
“I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.”
“Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.”
“And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.”
“Acting for me is liberating. It's almost like therapy, because I grew up in a blue-collar environment where you're not supposed to have feelings. So it's freeing to be in a safe place like a TV or film set where you discover feelings, and where you're supposed to be open and honest with everybody while exposing the weakest parts of you. And then when people congratulate you on revealing the weakest part of who you are, then you start realizing that that might not be weakness. It might be a different kind of strength.”

Source : Source: abilitymagazine.com
“I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.”
“I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.”
“I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.”

Source : "Scott Glenn on serial killers, Alan Shepard, and almost ending up on Sons Of Anarchy". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. May 4, 2015.

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