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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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
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Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.
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Some people say, 'Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don't you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?' But that's not me.
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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.
