Acting Quote by Sybil Thorndike

I feel acting needs professional training. Very few actors are inherently talented.

— Varun Sandesh

What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can…

— Kate Winslet

A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for…

— Harris L Coulter

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

— Anonymous

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur…

— David Lehman

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom…

— Erich Fromm

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime…

— Albert Camus

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it,…

— Anonymous

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are…

— Henry David Thoreau

Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy, including the…

— Gerald Epstein

Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The…

— Willie Nelson

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his…

— Kirk Douglas