"comedy ... is much harder to do than drama. It's not true that laugh and the world laughs with you. It's very hard to make a group of people laugh at the same thing; much easier to make them cry at the same thing. ... That's why great comic acting is probably the greatest acting there is."

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

Glenda Jackson

#Drama Quotes #People Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“It is hard to explain to people now how hard it was being a punk back then [the 1970s]. If you had short hair, didn't wear bell bottoms and walked down the street, chances are some ***** in an El Camino was going to kick your ass.”

Source : "We Accept You, One of Us?: Punk Rock, Community, and Individualism in an Uncertain Era, 1974-1985". Book by Mary Montgomery Wolf, 2007.
“My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.”
“I would say we want to stop the firing of rockets, for sure. But we also want to dismantle the terror - the tunnel - the terror tunnel networks that we have uncovered.”
“I had never really given any thought to working for the CIA, but graduation was upon me; I was getting married just a week or two after graduation; I had no job, no prospects for a job. And so I said sure, I'd be interested in working for the CIA.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger.”
“How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.”
“Hopefully we have a slightly different vibe, but also East Side is where a lot young people live. It is a really fun, trendy, funky neighborhood, and it is ripe for satire, that area specifically.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?”

Source : Amitav Ghosh (2001). “The Glass Palace: A Novel”, p.31, Random House

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