Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
~By Alfred Adler ~
I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.
~By Armand Assante ~
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
~By John Keats ~
Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.
~By Christine Baranski ~
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.
~By Mark Rylance ~
I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.
~By Tim McGraw ~
Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
~By Anita Desai ~
But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.
~By Richie Benaud ~
The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
~By Salmon P. Chase ~
At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.
~By Larry David ~
They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
~By Warren Buffett ~
That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
~By Howard Berman ~
I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
~By Eli Wallach ~
It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.
~By John Walker Lindh ~
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.
~By Beth Henley ~
I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.
~By Britney Spears ~
I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.
~By David Naughton ~
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
~By Camille Paglia ~
I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.
~By Roddy McDowall ~
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
~By Ira Glass ~
Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
~By George W. Bush ~
As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.
~By Jane Badler ~
We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
~By Calvin Klein ~
The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
~By Tim Roth ~
After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
~By Pedro Almodovar ~
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.
~By David Keith ~
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
~By Charles Edwards ~
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
~By George Whitefield ~
I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
~By Donald Pleasence ~
I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
~By Tony Bennett ~
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.
~By Timothy McVeigh ~
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.
~By George Martin ~
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
~By Ernest Bevin ~
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
~By Fay Weldon ~
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
~By Parker Posey ~
Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.
~By Ida Lupino ~
It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.
~By Robbie Fowler ~
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.
~By Bootsy Collins ~
Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.
~By Colleen McCullough ~
For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.
~By John Hutton ~
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.
~By Cesar Romero ~
Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
~By James Payn ~
Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
~By Sarojini Naidu ~
At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.
~By Susan George ~
I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!
~By Michael Welch ~
I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.
~By Luther Vandross ~
If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.
~By Julius Erving ~
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
~By Sai Baba ~
It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.
~By Alice Cooper ~
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
~By Michel De Certeau ~
It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.
~By John S. Bell ~
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
~By Ernst Mach ~
Effective action is always unjust.
~By Maya Angelou ~
There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
~By Bruce Dickinson ~
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
~By John Milton ~
Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me.
~By Anthony Quinn ~
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.
~By Richard Rosen ~
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.
~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
~By William H. Macy ~
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
~By Tom Selleck ~
I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.
~By Kathleen Quinlan ~
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
~By George Orwell ~
You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.
~By Eva Herzigova ~
As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.
~By Doc Hastings ~
I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.
~By Kelsey Grammer ~
What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?
~By David R. Brower ~
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.
~By Tony Randall ~
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
~By Norma Shearer ~
Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
~By Jay Leno ~
You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.
~By Ennio Morricone ~
I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.
~By Megan Fox ~
As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
~By Lewis Thomas ~
All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
~By Dario Fo ~
There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.
~By Shirley Knight ~
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
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