"The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters."

Source : "Anton Yelchin Talks BURYING THE EX, Working with Joe Dante, and the Tone of the Film; Plus His Thoughts on Getting a New Director for STAR TREK 3". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. December 12, 2013.

Anton Yelchin

#Jobs Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.”
“I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.”

Source : Werner Heisenberg (1970). “Natural law and the structure of matter”
“Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.”

Source : Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384
“Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.”
“The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.”
“Art, when inspired with love, leads to higher realms. Love art and that art will open for you the inner life.”
“In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.”

Source : "Songs and freedom in West Papua" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.
“Love is all that matters.”

Source : "China Forbes, Lead singer of Pink Martini: Always Growing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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