If you work in casting, its sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasnt true with any of the casting people I knew. – Catherine Keener
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau
It is not eloquence, but earnestness, not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. – Hannah More, “Prayer,” Practical Piety
