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So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!' ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#actor #chair #could #ever #glance

Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#actually #been #done #ever #everything

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#anything #honest #i #me #seems

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attendant #clubs #dozen #enemy #energetic

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen? ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#appearing #being #failure #feel #happen

I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world. ↗

— Sarah Burton

#clothes #creating #fashion #happening #how

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#because #both #break #break up #characters

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy. ↗

— Tim Burton

#changing #choice #choose #going #had

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#always #believed #body #chance #dancing

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#aids #changed #countries #cured #discourse