"No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence."

-- Lord Acton

#Character Quotes #Utterance Quotes #Revelations Quotes

“The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'”
“This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.”
“They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.”
“I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.”
“I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.”
“Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.”
“Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.”
“Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.”

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