"Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience."

“Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.”

“I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.”

“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.”

“Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (1983). “In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas”

“My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.”

“Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.”

“We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.”

Source : "Gayle T. Lemmon Talks About The Dressmaker of Khair Khana". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. June 05, 2011.

“Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.”