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“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words

“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words

“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Why are you staring at me?'
the girl asked.
The boy looked at her eyes.
'Because I wonder, of all the people in the world, why am I the lucky one who found you?”
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the girl asked.
The boy looked at her eyes.
'Because I wonder, of all the people in the world, why am I the lucky one who found you?”
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“Certain words, certain expressions. Things like 鈥業 love you鈥� and 鈥業 hate you.鈥� They鈥檙e big traps for actors. They can tempt you away from the connection you鈥檝e developed with your partner and lead you into swamplands of clich茅d performing. 鈥楲ove鈥� and 鈥榟ate鈥� are powerful words, and for some reason, we feel like we must fulfill them鈥攁nd other words like them鈥攚henever we say them. But we don鈥檛 have to.鈥�
Bill turns to Adam. 鈥淎ctors hit that line鈥斺€榶ou know I鈥檓 absolutely crazy about you. Don鈥檛 you?鈥欌€攁nd go all kablooey. Your head鈥檚 saying, 鈥楬ow can I not say a line like that without letting love swim into the duck pond? But inside you鈥檙e saying, 鈥楾o hell will love! This girl鈥檚 really pissed me off, breaking off an important date like that.鈥� Follow your true inner response. It will never lead you astray. You鈥檒l be bubbling up with impatience and irritation and you鈥檒l say a line like that and it鈥檒l have new meaning. It鈥檒l have your meaning. Remember: Bad actors consciously adjust their inner responses to what they think the lines of the text require. Good actors adjust the text to the inner emotional line created by their sensitized responses to the other actor.鈥�
Adam says, 鈥淚 get it. I was trying to act the words.鈥�
Bill nods. 鈥淵ou were manipulating yourself, cutting off our real response in order to live up to what you thought the text demanded of you. But any line can mean anything, and come out of you in any way.”
― The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
Bill turns to Adam. 鈥淎ctors hit that line鈥斺€榶ou know I鈥檓 absolutely crazy about you. Don鈥檛 you?鈥欌€攁nd go all kablooey. Your head鈥檚 saying, 鈥楬ow can I not say a line like that without letting love swim into the duck pond? But inside you鈥檙e saying, 鈥楾o hell will love! This girl鈥檚 really pissed me off, breaking off an important date like that.鈥� Follow your true inner response. It will never lead you astray. You鈥檒l be bubbling up with impatience and irritation and you鈥檒l say a line like that and it鈥檒l have new meaning. It鈥檒l have your meaning. Remember: Bad actors consciously adjust their inner responses to what they think the lines of the text require. Good actors adjust the text to the inner emotional line created by their sensitized responses to the other actor.鈥�
Adam says, 鈥淚 get it. I was trying to act the words.鈥�
Bill nods. 鈥淵ou were manipulating yourself, cutting off our real response in order to live up to what you thought the text demanded of you. But any line can mean anything, and come out of you in any way.”
― The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique

“Give your manifestations no choice but to come to fruition. They have to because you said so. Keep affirming, visualizing, scripting, saturating, etc. Keep going and do not give up. Never give up!”
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“Six days and six nights I was writing in a paranoid impulse. Full of fear, that the commenced metamorphosis 鈥� the reincarnation of the spirit of a dead 鈥� might have been disrupted.”
― Paganini (Heyne allgemeine Reihe)
― Paganini (Heyne allgemeine Reihe)
“Scaring the audience is easy. We've Sound Effects. Hardest is to horrify the viewer with the atmosphere/properties that are familiar to them.”
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“It's not important whether you worked hard or not. Ultimately it's about how the movie is. Nothing else matters.”
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“We knew great TV began with great writing, not great acting, and that is a distinction that can鈥檛 ever be ignored or underestimated. TV just won鈥檛 work any other way. It all starts on the page.”
― My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
― My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business

“If a filmmaker has no originality, what's the difference between a filmmaker and a photocopier!”
― A艧k Mafia: Armor of The World
― A艧k Mafia: Armor of The World
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