Al Pacino Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there’s a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself. – Al Pacino Actors Quotes Cast Quotes Challenging Quotes Movies Quotes Pay Quotes Roles Quotes Successful Quotes Tendency Quotes Theater Quotes I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope. Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
PoetryWallace Stevens Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens
Megan McKenna I used to think if I didn’t have a drink it was going to be a rubbish night, so I’d drink purely to get drunk. – Megan McKenna
Sherilyn Fenn I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don’t know what is going to happen. I’m in this and I don’t understand it. This is never going to sell. Who’s going to watch this thing? – Sherilyn Fenn
Marco Pierre White Just because something is English does not necessarily mean it is good. We make the best cheddar; we make great pasties. But we can’t make very good brie or baguettes – and the French can’t make pork pies. – Marco Pierre White
Mike Lindell I had a very weird, very vivid dream. Donald Trump and I were in some kind of room. It was an office with pictures on the wall behind us, and we were standing next to each other posing for a picture. – Mike Lindell
Philip LevinePoetry Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You’ll have that readership. Keep going until you know you’re doing work that’s worthy. And then see what happens. That’s my advice. – Philip Levine
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