"What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafÃ©s and in the country."

-- Peter Levi

#Country Quotes #Language Quotes #Force Quotes

“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.”
“I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.”
“Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.”
“Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality”
“I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.”
“I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.”
“I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody else had been doing this work, and if I could have seen these pictures anywhere at all, then there would have been no need to make them.”

Source : "Journal of Contemporary Art" Interview with Jutta Koether, www.jca-online.com.
“I remember a long, long day of filming and it took forever to get Kirk Douglas up on his cross. We played a terrible joke on him when, as he was safely installed, the assistant director called lunch and left him up there. He could have had the lot of us fired but he was very good about it. You have to have a sense of humor in this industry.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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