#iv

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. ↗

— Mencius

#wish

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#completely #gets #god #i #i think

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#constantly #given #i #might #movies

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#believe #director #end #enjoyable #fast

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#frost #gives #had #locked #locked up

I live and love in God's peculiar light. ↗

— Michelangelo

#god #i #light #live #love

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Pras Michel

#cause #confident #great #home #i

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. ↗

— Michelangelo

#divine #perfection #shadow #true #work

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. ↗

— Michelangelo

#beautiful thing #does #failing #gives #hear

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#best #braver #did #equal #given