"I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice but finally fundamentally it's mining from yourself, from your own personality, from what you know. If you can't know it you can have a good guess by people you know or books you've read."

-- Peter O'Toole

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“To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms, natural forces, and radiation [i.e., time, chance, and chemistry], how has it come into being? I think, however, that we must go further than this and admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation.”
“Play, intrinsically rewarding, doesn't cost anything; as soon as you put a price on it, it becomes, to some extent, not play.”
“I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange shudders of transformation, bodily experienced to the point of vulnerability, visions of mysteries until the certainty of having died, ecstasies to the point of stony petrifaction, and a continuation of dreaming sad dreams.”
“Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.”
“I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.”

Source : Lisa Genova (2011). “Left Neglected”, p.320, Simon and Schuster
“Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.”
“If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.”

Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas" by Michel Thomas, Disc 3, March 29, 2001.
“TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.”

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