"I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character."

-- Michel Gondry

#Character Quotes #Personality Quotes #Actors Quotes

“God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set.”
“The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .”
“I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food.”
“White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.”
“And Iâ€™d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, Iâ€™d find you and Iâ€™d choose you.”
“Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.”
“In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.”
“Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.”

Source : Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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