"The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them."

“The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to a joy so sweet that it is without limit. Only then will the actor have direct access to the life that moves in him, which is as free as his breathing. And like his breathing, he doesn't cause it to happen. He doesn't contain it, and it doesn't contain him.”

Source : Joseph Chaikin (1993). “The Presence of the Actor”, p.10, Theatre Communications Group

“Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.”

“In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life.”

“It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.”

“I've spent several years now with my head down”

Source : "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.

“Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.”

“From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.”

“You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.”

Source : Source: collider.com