"One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement."

-- John Gielgud

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“Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...”

Source : Georges Rodenbach (2007). “The Bells of Bruges”, Dedalus Limited
“I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.”
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.”
“Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.”
“I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.”
“Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.”
“You should go." "I can't." "Because you want to stare at the monster?" Alec's green eyes blaze, but with a wholly human fire now. "Or because you pity me?" I couldn't guess which possibility he loathes more. I fold my arms. "I can't leave because the door's locked. Believe me, I would've gone hours ago if I could have." "Oh. Of course." Then he looks so abashed--so boyish, and so handsome--that I almost want to laugh.”
“Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.”

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