"Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances"

-- Sanford Meisner

#Acting Quotes #Given Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“It's just like they approach things on every movie I've worked on, very much as if it was a live-action movie. The character you're playing, even though he's a rooster and is really stupid, you approach it in the same way you would approach Hamlet, which is exactly how I approached it. But they give you the circumstances. "You're on the boat. You didn't expect to be here. You just climbed in a boat to maybe sleep. You don't even know why you climbed in the boat. You're really that dumb.”

Source : "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.
“The big damages come if the climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases turns out to be high causing greater global warming than current projections. Then it's not a bullet headed at us, but a thermonuclear warhead.”
“The most important part of a RPG is the player feeling like they are taking the role of a character in a fully realised fantasy world. They can explore, visit various towns and places, talk to people, customise their character, collect various items, and defeat monsters. The story is not the focus of the experience and is only there to make the atmosphere of the fantasy world more interesting and engaging during the course of the game.”
“I'm ready for something private, private and real”
“Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.”
“Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.”

Source : Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.73, tredition
“I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?”

Source : Nevil Shute (1991). “Ruined City”
“Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.”

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