“I’m on the stage alone for 90 minutes. If I start mailing it in, I’m going to get lost. Part of the craft of acting is being properly prepared. I have too much respect for Lincoln to approach it any other way.”

— Granville Van Dusen

Source: Curtain Up: Lincoln actor hangs up his top hat https://cumberlink.com/entertainment/local-scene/curtain-up-lincoln-actor-hangs-up-his-top-hat/article_ecccfa3c-72f9-52f8-a78b-e072b8063925.html (July 9, 2015)

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“When I was younger I got into fights with my brother. Now I’m older, I can’t get into any bother… now if I explode, I’m the one who’s going to die. I’m an old man.”

Tom Jones (1940) Welsh singer

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“If this is love, no thanks. I don’t want any part of it. When I’m older, I’m just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

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“I’m prepared. I have a gun and I know how to shoot, and whoever comes calling without an invitation will get it in the rear end.”

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Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

“It doesn’t mean I’m purer and nicer than others. But it means I have too much ignorance and mental defilement to remove.
I need Buddha's wisdom.”

Richard Gombrich (1937) British Indologist

"When I say I'm a Buddhist"[citation needed]

“I believe you have to start with a craft; you don’t just start with a dream. You’ve got to put a lot of work in. If you want to pursue acting, then you go to acting class. If you want to be a dancer, then you learn to dance, which is what I did. If you want to be a ventriloquist or join the circus … When you’re young, you start looking at what you want to do—not just who you want to be, but what you want to do. And I think the tenacity to say, “I’m going to perfect that,” is the beginning of a work ethic...”

Goldie Hawn (1945) American actress, film director, and producer.

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“Every time I know we have to go out on tour, there’s about three or four weeks where I’m terrified—where I start thinking: That’s not me. I’m not Freddie Mercury.”

Chris Cornell (1964–2017) American singer-songwriter, musician

Then I go out onstage and it’s like diving into the cold Puget Sound after spending five weeks in Hawaii—there’s a shock to the system, but the fear goes away. You get used to it, which is pretty cool, because if I stopped performing, I could just disappear and end up being some weird chattering man that walks the streets in rags, staring only at the pavement. At first you rationalize that going to a club where people recognize you is a bad idea; then going to a neighborhood bar becomes a bad idea, too. Going to the grocery store becomes a bad idea. Answering the phone becomes a bad idea. Then every time the dog barks, you think the National Guard is on your roof ready to drill holes in the shingles and shoot at you. So I have to deal with the outside world on sort of a maintenance level—go out to a bar every so often and just be around people.
Interview with Details Magazine, December 1996 https://pitchfork.com/features/article/10081-chris-cornell-searching-for-solitude/,
On being anti-social

“In the meantime, Mosul is very, very difficult. Do you know why? Because I don’t talk about military, and I don’t talk about certain other things, you’re going to be surprised to hear that. And by the way, my whole campaign, I’d say that. So I don’t have to tell you. I don’t want to be one of these guys that say, “Yes, here’s what we’re going to do.” I don’t have to do that. I don’t have to tell you what I’m going to do in North Korea. Wait a minute. I don’t have to tell you what I’m going to do in North Korea. And I don’t have to tell you what I’m going to do with Iran. You know why? Because they shouldn’t know. And eventually, you guys are going to get tired of asking that question.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2010s, 2017, February

“Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

“I’m starting to get the picture.”

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“If you can say it so calmly, then you haven’t.”
Source: Bitter Angels (2009), Chapter 11 (p. 155)

“I’m on the stage alone for 90 minutes. If I start mailing it in, I’m going to get lost. Part of the craft of acting is being properly prepared. I have too much respect for Lincoln to approach it any other way.”

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