Representational Acting Quotes & Sayings

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood. — Steven Seagal

Fidelity is surely our highest aim, but a translation is not made with tracing paper. It is an act of critical interpretation. Let me insist on the obvious: Languages trail immense, individual histories behind them, and no two languages, with all their accretions of tradition and culture, ever dovetail perfectly. They can be linked by translation, as a photograph can link movement and stasis, but it is disingenuous to assume that either translation or photography, or acting for that matter, are representational in any narrow sense of the term. Fidelity is our noble purpose, but it does not have much, if anything, to do with what is called literal meaning. A translation can be faithful to tone and intention, to meaning. It can rarely be faithful to words or syntax, for these are peculiar to specific languages and are not transferable. — Edith Grossman

Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention? — Jack White

* But even Cammaerts' luck ran out eventually, proving — Rita Kramer

My face is something between groteque and beautiful, Salai. It is something far less interesting; it is plain. — E.L. Konigsburg

If things go our way, you might see why I'm a legend. And if your daddy has a problem with that, he'll find out why I'm the Legend Killer. — Randy Orton

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe