Advice to the Players

 A new feature of the site. Here you will find words of wisdom from the world outside. I will try to update this page daily with new and interesting quotes. Send me a note if you have something to contribute to this page as I will most certainly post it!!

Today's additions.

Popcorn is the last area of movie business where good taste is still a concern

--Mike Barfield

Trying to write honestly about pornographic films is like trying to tie one's shoes while walking.

--Vincent Canby

Hollywood is a piquant mixture of the Main Line, the Mermaid Tavern, and any lesser French penal colony.

--S.J. Perelman

Previous thoughts

Actors, particularly bad ones, in Restoration costume, look exactly like caterpillars on their hind legs.

C.A. Lejeune

Acting is largely a matter of farting about in disguises

Peter O'Toole

The only way to get any feeling from a television set is to touch it when you're wet

Larry Gelbart

Henrik Ibsen Day

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm

You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Anthony Burgess

First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Michael Caine

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

Eugene Field

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
         Alex Levine

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time -- a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic.
         Adrienne Cook

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

-- Shane Leslie

Irish Proverb

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Noel Coward

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery

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Louis Malle

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes

Samuel Beckett

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Tennessee

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

-- Paul Dirac

Never judge a book by its movie.

-- J. W. Eagan

A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.

-- Albert Einstein

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from try

Harry Anderson

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

August Strindberg

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

-- Kathy Ireland, star of 'Alien From L.A.' and 'Danger Island'

 

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

-- William Faulkner

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation

Bette Davis

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself

Jeanne Moreau

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Frank Capra

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

-- Stanislaw J. Lec

I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.

-- Oscar Levant

 

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

-- Abraham Lincoln

-- H. L. Mencken

 

I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.

-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989

 

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

-- Robert Schuller

 

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

-- Jean Cocteau

 

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

-- John Ciardi

 

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

-- Johnny Carson

 

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.

Polish Proverb

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

 

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
T.S. Eliot

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."

Cynthia Heimel

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adler

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."

-- Robert Flaherty

"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."

John Andrew Holmes

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Paul Cezanne

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

Sean O'Casey

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.   

 

Oscar WIlde

 

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

 

Bette Davis

 

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

 

Jane Fonda

 

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

 

Alva Johnson

 

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