Charles Laughton Quotes
Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.
Quotes to Explore
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
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Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.
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I am a lawyer by profession.
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No actor has complete freedom.
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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
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I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
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No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters,
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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I attempt to connect with my muse and go on demon rides.
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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
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In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.
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It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.
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We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
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He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.
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War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
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In Memory of BPP Comrades Fred Hampton & Mark Clark, both assassinated by the US Government via the state and local government of Chicago, Illinois, December 4, 1969.
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I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?
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I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.
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Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.
