I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
MICHAEL CAINEAnd what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people’s morale.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.
MARCO POLO -
Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.
BAHA'U'LLAH -
You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.
AARON WATSON -
The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.
IMAM ALI -
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
BARKHAD ABDI -
I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts – just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
MANNY PACQUIAO -
I think it’s using people, I think it’s like encouraging something that’s unhealthy, telling people you love them. “I love you.” Oh really, you love your fans?
BO BURNHAM -
[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP -
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
ABRAHAM PAIS -
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Now let us thank th’ eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.
JOHN BROWN -
A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
ERMA BOMBECK -
I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
LOU HOLTZ