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"An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."
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"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."

"It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying."

"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."

"It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable."

"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."
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"Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness."

"People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."

"Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves."

"It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out."

"The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance."

"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"

"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."

"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."

"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
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