"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."

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Source : In Time 3 July 1978, p. 33

Laurence Olivier

#Funny Quotes #Acting Quotes #Adults Quotes

“If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'”
“If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.”
“This is our story to tell. Youâ€™d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I havenâ€™t. Iâ€™ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.”
“Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.”
“I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.”
“One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.”

Source : Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman (1982). “Architettura Della Città”, p.130, MIT Press
“new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.”
“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”

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