#elf

…he felt he could willingly give his life for them. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#life

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#appearance #because #body #call #change

I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#because #been #before #close #extraordinary

Our souls sparkle brightly with creative energy, our beings are as complex as the universe, and at the same time we help make up a higher body of energy. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#facts #learning #life #life-lessons #mathematics

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character. ↗

— Ving Rhames

#approach #autobiography #character #character actor #consider

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#day #end #end of the day #face #man

I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies. ↗

— Omega Maverick

#inspirational #self-confidence #words-to-live-by #inspirational

In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

#ahead #another #best #best work #done

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#belief #confidence #failure #self-confidence #success