"The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life"

-- Bruce Dern

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“I am just like any other girl, a sucker for romance.”
“In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.”

Source : "Here I Stand". Book by Paul Robeson, p. 124, 1958.
“To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else.”
“After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."”
“A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.”
“Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.”
“Be gentle with the young.”
“I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?”

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