"A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them, to ask 'Am I like that?'"

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Wallace Shawn

#Opportunity Quotes #Self Quotes #Play Quotes

“My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.”
“For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.”

Source : Robert B. Parker (2009). “Early Autumn”, p.4, Dell
“The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.”
“The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.”
“Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart...”
“I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.”
“I can't imagine myself not being an actor.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.”

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