"I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people."

-- Charlie Kaufman

#People Quotes #Actors Quotes #Intimidation Quotes

“Good is the enemy of great.”
“Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.”

Source : "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.
“If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.”
“Most people are extras in their own movie.”
“It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.”
“Places that are empty of you are empty of life.”

Source : Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2000). “The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s”, Scala Books
“I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.”
“Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.”

Source : Janusz Korczak (1998). “A Voice for the Child: The Inspirational Words of Janusz Korczak”, Thorsons Pub

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