#tens

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#disguise #method-acting #pretense #role-playing #sherlock-holmes

It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well. ↗

— Bobby Farrelly

#big #difficult #especially #extensively #i

I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal into their hearts, I scrutinize their most fundamental beliefs, I scan their irrational impulses, their unspeakable emotions, I sleep in their lungs during the summer and their muscles during the winter, and all of this I do without the least effort, without intending to, without asking or seeking it out, without constraints, driven only by love and devotion. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#intensity #love #dreams

Plans make dreams reality. ↗

— Susan Pace-Koch

#children #cowboys #dinosaurs #kids #kittens

We are gods with anuses. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#human-condition #humor #philosofy #psychology #religion

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense. ↗

— Martha Beck

#calm #i #practice #situations #staying