George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.
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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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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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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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I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an ambitious man, and I'd say that an ambitious man is a damaged man.
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And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
