"No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves. Turn the page: you, looking, are newly confused. You know me too well to know me. Or not too well: too much."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Confused Quotes #Eye Quotes #Self Quotes

“There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze how I do it, but I am sure of one thing. To write convincing characters, you must possess the ability to think yourself into someone else's skin.”
“If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.”
“Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you”
“There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.”

Source : 'The Green Eye of the Yellow God' (1911)
“A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.”
“There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.”

Source : Pete Earley (2007). “Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness”, p.103, Penguin
“Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.”
“What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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