George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.
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Vulnerability is allowing people to see you exactly as you are, which is really hard, because when you’re vulnerable you can get hurt. Most people armor up with bravado or something, but those people are missing out, because without allowing yourself to be vulnerable, it’s tough to have, like, any emotional experience at all. Letting people in is really vulnerable, and most people—especially introverts—have trouble.
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Can we pray for the reelection of George Bush?
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
