#ld

I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#example #fat #felt #for example #getting

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#birthday #birthday party #child #feel #fine

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#being #hate #i #lose #must

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#always #hair #like #me #more

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#behind #curtain #divides #exciting #other

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#during #hold #lives #most #obliged

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#connected #dreams #importance #more #our

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#always #definite #experience #field #origin

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#creation #deafness #everyday #experience #familiar

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#average #average man #conceptions #conditions #desire