#illness

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#hardest #i #learn #stillness #the hardest thing

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#anthony #anthony hopkins #anything #appear #character

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#fatal #illness #ms #nor #progressive

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness. ↗

— Michael Landon

#before #cure #die #illness #you

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#always #appear #because #cancer #come

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#any #anyone #bear #because #believe

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#everyday #everyday life #family #frontier #full

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#because #big #big city #city #crazy

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#been #i #illness #like #rudder