#act

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#personality #life

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all! ↗

— Iain Banks

#course #fact #great #great believer #i

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash! ↗

— Peter Banks

#another #approach #attempt #bits #different

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#characters #does #ego #just #lot

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. ↗

— Nina Totenberg

#age #comes #i #level #some

The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question. ↗

— William Banting

#becomes #beyond #charm #comfort #creates

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#always #dancer #drifted #going #i

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice? ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#makes #nobody #perfect #practice #practice makes

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages. ↗

— Leon Askin

#also #considered #disadvantages #dumont #great