"John Barrymore was a serious actor who did a great deal of research for all his parts, until, I guess, he was around 50. Then he started drinking heavily . . . So he drank himself to death. It took him 10 years."

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John Carradine

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“There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.”
“The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom.”

Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.10, Ballantine Books
“I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.”
“I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.”
“Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.”
“I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.”

Source : Interview with Anna Smith, www.ign.com. April 18, 2008.
“The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.”
“I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.”

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