"You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor."

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Source : "Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.

Gene Hackman

#Careers Quotes #Choices Quotes #Actors Quotes

“Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.”

Source : Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.45, Bread and Circuses Publishing
“[George W.] Bush's presidency was one of the great nightmares of my life to date.”
“Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.”
“I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”

Source : Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster
“Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.”
“The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.”

Source : Charles Templeton (1955). “Life Looks Up”, New York : Harper
“There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.”
“A man's main job is to protect his woman from her desire to 'get bangs' every other month.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 5, 2013

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