Quote by Roland Barthes
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. - Roland B

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. – Roland Barthes

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power
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes

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Language
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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. – Roland Barthes

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Society
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Other Quotes from
Actors, Acting
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actors duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. – Marlon Brando

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Actors, Acting

You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm. – Sarah Bernhardt

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Actors, Acting

He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the tracks end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive… – James Agee

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Actors, Acting

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history. – Thomas Campbell

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Actors, Acting

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