"What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around."

-- Chris Messina

#Bridges Quotes #Car Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.”

Source : "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.
“No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.”
“This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.”
“The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.”
“Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do”
“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.”
“If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.”
“The universe will pay you to be yourself and do what you really love.”

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