Marcel Jouhandeau Quotes & Sayings

Shoes are funny beasts. You think they're just clothes, but really, they're alive. They want things. Fancy ones with gems want to go to balls, big boots want to go to work, slippers want to dance. Or sleep. Shoes make the path you're on. Change your shoes, change your path. — Catherynne M Valente

Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it. — Earl G. Graves, Sr.

Watch the actors who are on a very high frequency, very alert to everything and very much in touch with their feelings -- simple. Acting should be economical and simple. It's not complicated. So many actors make it complicated, fill it with screaming, yelling, crying, a lot of emotion but no real inner action, no real focus. Actors who have good technique are pursuing a very simple objective. They know what they're listening for, they know what they're looking for. They know what the obstacles are that stand in the way and what they're doing to get what they want. They allow themselves to respond right off their partner, spontaneously.

Acting is not difficult. It's simply a matter of defining the action. — Michael Beckett

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. — Sigmund Freud

My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us. — Claes Oldenburg

You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] — Plautus