#ay

They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques. ↗

— Colin Firth

#although #been #cheques #come #contemplate

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#any #court #deliberate #disrespectful #fear

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress. ↗

— Gianni Versace

#emulate #men #more #sure #themselves

I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#every #every time #gonna #guy #i

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#bad guys #cause #could #face #get

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#behind #best #engenders #left #qualities

I want always to be positive. ↗

— Gianni Versace

#i #positive #want

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#books #did #falling #falling in love #i

She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green as a cat’s. She was still beautiful. Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog, the flowers in Kew Gardens. He saw a boy with black hair and blue eyes like Alec’s, heard violin music like the sound of silver water. He saw a girl with long brown hair and a serious face. In a world where everything went away from him eventually, she was one of the few remaining constants. And then there was Camille. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #jem-carstairs #magnus-bane #tessa-gray #will-herondale

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do. ↗

— Joe Flanigan

#learning #may #out #pretty #valuable