"Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience."

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Source : Larry Moss (2004). “The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor”, p.64, Bantam

Larry Moss

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“If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.”
“In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.”
“In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.”
“I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.”
“The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.”

Source : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labor and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.26
“I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody â€” including me â€” has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.”

Source : Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.160, Shambhala Publications
“Every time I got hurt, the person who treated me said that. 'It is more attractive to admit that you're in pain.' Because of that person, I learned how to speak with honesty. Without making calculations about what the other person's thinking.”
“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”

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