The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone. – Bill DeWitt, 1972
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like. – Johann von Goethe
As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: This is me playing this character. And arent I fantastic! I dont feel that so much now. – Kristin Scott Thomas
