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"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
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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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"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."


"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love."


"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."


"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."


"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."


"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."


"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."
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