"I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying."

-- Matthew Macfadyen

#Theatre Quotes #Youth Quotes

“If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.”
“If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there arenâ€™t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I donâ€™t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that thereâ€™s nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.”
“Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.”
“Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.”
“Today's decisions are tomorrow's realities.”

Source : Tim Storey (2008). “Utmost Living: Creating and Savoring Your Best Life Now”, p.228, Harmony
“If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.”
“When I first started out, it was very, very difficult to even get in the room with directors or casting directors because they would see that I hadn't been to drama school and wouldn't want to see me. Now, I feel like it's changing. We have this new generation of a lot of writers, directors and actors who are just breaking through, and they're doing it for the passion.”

Source : "Kaya Scodelario Talks THE TRUTH ABOUT EMANUEL, Working with Jessica Biel, Filming Underwater, THE MAZE RUNNER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 7, 2014.
“I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral, and that we should not condone immoral acts. [...] I do not believe that the armed forces are well served by saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way, not just with regards to homosexual acts.”

Source : "Larry Kramer on the 20th Anniversary of ACT UP, the Government’s Failure to Prevent the AIDS Crisis and the State of Gay Activism Today". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 29, 2007.

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