"The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor."

-- Paul Scofield

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“In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.”
“We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.”
“Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.”
“There is nothing better than getting something in front of an audience in a less stressful setting than previews!”
“When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.”

Source : Denton Welch (1952). “The Denton Welch Journals”
“In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.”
“There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.”
“Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.”

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