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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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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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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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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Center is a very tough position to play.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
