#ect

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me. ↗

— Kim Novak

#direction #expected #felt #go #i

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. ↗

— Anais Nin

#create #expect #herself #how #man

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ↗

— Anais Nin

#does #extent #love #protect #protects

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. ↗

— Anais Nin

#brought #composed #connection #dreams #greatly

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#bring #certain #certain things #directors #feel

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#audition #ball #because #behind #eight

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#comfortable #common #director #do your best #ethic

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#acting #classes #connected #did #dramatic

Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#always #anymore #anything #balance #certain

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad. ↗

— Larry Niven

#i #i do #passing #privacy #suspect