“There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession.”
As quoted in " A Film of One's Own http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/magazine/03actesses.html" by Lynn Hirschberg at The New York Times (September 3, 2006)
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“When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.”
Quoted by Masiela Lusha http://www.masielalusha.com/board.php
American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 444 (1950)
Judicial opinions
Letter to Austin Birchard (21 April 1874), when he was approximately $46,000 in debt.
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
“Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.”
On Growing Up: Letters to American Boys & Girls (1962); also quoted in Herbert Hoover On Growing Up: Letters from and to American Children (1990) edited by Timothy Walch
Interviewed in Paris Review, Summer 1955; reprinted in Malcolm Cowley (ed.) Writers at Work (New York: Viking Press, 1959) p. 146.
Section V, p. 13
Natural Law; or The Science of Justice (1882), Chapter II. The Science of Justice (Continued)
“While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.”
Source: The Four Purposes of Life: Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World
As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.