"What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it."

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Source : "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.

James L. Brooks

#Mean Quotes #Doe Quotes #Actors Quotes

“In the human race today, you came last.”
“Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.”
“Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.”
“There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.”
“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.”

Source : 'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 4, sect. 4 (translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter)
“Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.”
“Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.”
“We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.”

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