Fanny Kemble Quotes
An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.
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Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.
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With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.
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I was weak and pathetic and I couldn't control myself. An explanation, especially a bullshit one, doesn't alter the circumstances. I need to change, I have to change, and at this point, change is my only option, unless I am ready to die. All that matters is that I make myself something else and someone else for the future.
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In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.
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An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.
