"Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives."

-- Irving Stone

#People Quotes #Drug Quotes #Morality Quotes

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
“I did everything young. I was always in a hurry to do everything. I had kids young and I worked young and I didn't have time to go back to school because I wasn't willing to give up anything that I had.”

Source : Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.
“Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.”
“learning 's a gift, even when "pain" ,s your teacher!”
“Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.”
“I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before â€˜Mulholland Dr.â€™ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking people out. She told me I was a brilliant actor but the feedback was that I made people feel uncomfortable because I was so nervous and intense. I just sat there and blubbed. My mum was staying in LA at the time and I went to her and said: â€˜I just canâ€™t do this. Iâ€™m not cut out for it.â€™ She just said: â€˜Donâ€™t believe a word people say about you. Forget them.â€™”
“There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.”
“At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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