#thou

I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#came #concerned #confused #drafted #everybody

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#individual #interest #talk #understanding #vain

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#became #fame #i #incremental #thing

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#doing #getting #hobby #how #i

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#best #directing #experience #films #good

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#brilliant #director #emotions #handled #i

When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap. ↗

— Peter Berg

#back #cheap #david #great #great writer

I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.' ↗

— Peter Berg

#back #barbra #barbra streisand #been #believer

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#ascribe #entitlement #frightening #gives #importance

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. ↗

— John Berger

#being #best #compassion #natural #natural order