#thing

There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#actor #after #been #career #choose

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything. ↗

— Evan Dando

#decent #down #everything #experiences #find

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#dinner #doing #everything #keep #marriage

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#draw #men #most #things #told

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#away #because #call #dance #down

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #black #cat #cellar #dark

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#attention #blockbusters #help #knows #more

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#comes #go #here #hoping #into

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right. ↗

— Eric Butterworth

#our #right #see #set #them

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#dickens #everything #faulkner #how #john