"If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, 'do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were really landed on it.'"

-- Ian Mckellen

#Character Quotes #Vices Quotes #Directors Quotes

“That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.”
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
“The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.”
“You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.”

Source : Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.54, W. W. Norton & Company
“The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.”
“Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.”
“My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.”

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