"Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word."

-- Jeanne Moreau

#Acting Quotes #Spoken Word Quotes

“When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences.”
“Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?”
“I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.”
“My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.”
“The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.”
“I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort--I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form--all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.”

Source : "Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9". Interview with Robert Hunter Wilbur in September 1963, "The Paris Review", www.theparisreview.org. Winter - Spring 1968.
“I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at allâ€”steps to the refrigerator, seconds on the clock, words in a sentenceâ€”to keep my head occupied. The counting felt like something to hang on to, as if finding the right numbers might somehow crack the code on whatever system ran the slippery universe we were moving through.”
“I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.”

You may also like:

Anne Parillaud
Actress
Anouk Aimee
Film actress
Brigitte Bardot
Actress
Catherine Deneuve
Actress
Francois Truffaut
Film director
Louis Malle
Film director
Marcello Mastroianni
Film actor
Romy Schneider
Film actress
Simone Signoret
Actress