#ma

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#hard #make #needs #plausible #sometimes

The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor. ↗

— Rick Baker

#allowed #back #first #first time #found

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#man #many #opposition #out #strength

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#comforts #fears #hopes #many #prosperity

There are so many decisions in making a movie. ↗

— Rick Baker

#making #many #movie

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#many #nature #ny times #over #senses

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#game #i #man #some #stop

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#customs #discerned #faculties #fortunate #fortune

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#beyond #finds #good #health #hurt

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky. ↗

— Rick Baker

#clear #death #died #end #happened