“Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 220 of 303
“Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.”
“I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.”
“Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.”
“I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.”
“I suppose I'm very aware of time and of memories and of enjoying life... not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly wanna be and believe that I am. I hold onto my family really tight and try to be as good a woman as I can be in my life.”
“One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized”
“We generally look around for what is not there fretting over it and thus letting go of what is there.”
“Dates are important in history because what is done on those dates is of importance”
“The perspective is more important than the perception”
“I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.”
“I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.”
“Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them.”
“I'm only the messenger.”
“Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.”
“A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.”
“All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.”
“A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.”
“But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.”
“We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.”