"I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist."

-- Ellen Barkin

#Teacher Quotes #Acting Quotes #Taught Quotes

“I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213”
“The Nick Boles text is kiboshed [Mike] Gove's chances. It undermined people's confidence in him. It made it look as if he's been conspiring all along. It did more damage to his reputation than anything else.”
“I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.”

Source : "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2007.
“It's hard to compare actors from different generations.”
“The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?”

Source : “The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.
“We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.”

Source : Alain LeRoy Locke (1988). “The Negro and his music: Negro art: past and present”, Ayer Co Pub
“A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?”
“Prosperity is the ability to do what you want to do at the instant you want to do it.”

Source : Raymond Charles Barker (2011). “The Power of Decision: A Step-By-Step Program to Overcome Indecision and Live Without Failure Forever”, p.77, Penguin

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