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We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#battles #chance #daughter #girl #got

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#certain #certain point #go #healthy #hold

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#better person #closer #discontent #divine #draw

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#days #during #except #i #life

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#count #live #live audience #me #more

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#french #identity #irish #national #national identity

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#effect #film #lasting #may #million

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him. ↗

— Andy Garcia

#got #guy #him #love #play

Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#audience #better #every #figure #how

I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#believe #everything #hard #i #i think