Claude Rains (1889–1967) English-born actor
Of Hollywood; Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Claude Rains p. 362
“Writers are a sorry lot. The best you can say of them is that they are better than actors and that's not much.”
Appendix, letter to Chase Horton (8 June 1959)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
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Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Paris Review Interview (1990)
Context: I know when it’s the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it’s the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, No. No, I’m finished. Bye. And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.
Tracey Ullman (1959) English-born actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer, director, author and businesswoman
"Tracking Tracey" http://www.dareland.com/emulsionalproblems/ullman.htm (Interview, January 1989)
“…as an actor, trying to do the best you can on a film, you think, do I say thank you or fuck you?”
Alfre Woodard (1952) American film, stage, and television actress
On how, in one project that she worked on, other actors were given more takes than Woodard in “In Praise of the One-Scene Performance: An Interview with Alfre Woodard” https://www.popmatters.com/176250-in-praise-of-the-one-scene-performance-an-interview-with-alfre-wooda-2495711026.html in Pop Matters (2013 Nov 7)
“Our partnership is so much more than that, and in a lot of ways it’s so much better.”
Scott Moir (1987) Canadian figure skater
Tessa Virtue, quoted in "Scott & Tessa Say Their Relationship Is “So Much Better” than People Imagine" http://www.flare.com/celebrity/scott-tessa-say-their-relationship-is-so-much-better-than-people-imagine/ (26 February 2018) <br class="br">Partnership with Tessa Virtue, Tessa Virtue about Moir
“Our partnership is so much more than that, and in a lot of ways it’s so much better.”
Tessa Virtue (1989) Canadian ice dancer
Tessa Virtue, quoted in "Scott & Tessa Say Their Relationship Is “So Much Better” than People Imagine" http://www.flare.com/celebrity/scott-tessa-say-their-relationship-is-so-much-better-than-people-imagine/ (26 February 2018) <br class="br">Partnership with Scott Moir, Tessa Virtue about Moir
“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Midnight Bayou