#art

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood? ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#awful #earning #go #hollywood #lot

I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#example #fat #felt #for example #getting

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#birthday #birthday party #child #feel #fine

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#get #ghosts #just #like #other

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#article #foreign #i #impresses #many

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#attributes #body #colours #combinations #elements

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#better #contemptible #department #exquisite #fail

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#beethoven #i #jackson #like #michael

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#changing #i #person #time