Vittorio Gassman Quotes

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman

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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.

Zach LaVine
- You
- Always
- Go
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

Nathalie Sarraute
- Time
- Like
- Arts
As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

Eddie Redmayne
- Success
- Friend
- Mountain
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

Queen Rania of Jordan
- Good
- Now
- Embrace
Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

Sam Harris
- Life
- Good
- Focus
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Samuel Beckett
- Silence
- Go