#very

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#emotionally #everybody #fantasy #humour #i

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#because #comes #good #intelligence #intention

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#grappling #high #limited #make #making

And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#blame #could #end #everything #good

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know? ↗

— James Earl Jones

#know #mean #peasant #people #simple

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#being #church #disturbing #him #idea

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#deals #down #every #film #generation

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#breaking #down #everything #family #god

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#because #best #denzel #deserved #disappointed

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#actor #also #concentration #every #great