#ak

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #freedom #general #genius #insight

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#always #choices #could #cowboy #films

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#every #gratitude #made #off #shaken

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. ↗

— Joan Didion

#claims #forever #hardest #his #image

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. ↗

— Joan Didion

#girl #i #impulse #little #little girl

You break her heart, I'll break your neck. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#heart #her #i #neck #you

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#california #came #credentials #dejected #dreams

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#care #dancer #enough #get #good

I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes? ↗

— Vin Diesel

#babies #back #between #forth #got

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#first #five #got #helped #how