Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.
Konstantin Stanislavisky
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing -- all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art -- at the door.
I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
William Shakespeare
So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is the state of man: to-day he puts forthThe tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms,And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surelyHis greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,And then he falls, as I do. I have venturd,Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,This many summers in a sea of glory,But far beyond my depth. My high-blown prideAt length broke under me, and now has left me,Weary and old with service, to the mercyOf a rude stream that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye!I feel my heart new opend. O, how wretchedIs that poor man that hangs on princes favours!There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,More pangs and fears than wars or women have;And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,Never to hope again.
The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain
O, but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority; Most ingorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence,-like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep;
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it.
George Bernard Shaw
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
I want to be all used up when I die.
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
Paul Newman
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.
John Newton
A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
Robert Frost
The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.
Robert Frost, quoted in Wall Str
The land was ours before we were the lands.
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
James A. Froude
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
Human improvement is from within outward.
The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate.
Christopher Fry
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
Northrop Frye
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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