"An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham."

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Oscar Wilde

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“I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.”
“Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.”
“I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion indicate) can occupy one severely enough; likewise, in mathematics, the meaning of imaginary quantities, of the infinitesimally small and infinitely large and similar matters.”
“The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.”
“Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.”
“I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.
“Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.”

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