"Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people."

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Source : "'Mad Men' Star Brian Batt Stands Up for Gay Actors" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. May 13, 2010.

Bryan Batt

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Silence Quotes

“The Republican Party does not reach out.”
“There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina.”

Source : Edward Lear (2012). “Nonsense Poems”, p.16, Courier Corporation
“I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.”

Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”
“I do like the world quite a lot.”

Source : Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.30, A&C Black
“Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains”
“I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.”

Source : Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books
“Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.”

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