Quote by James Agee
He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various relate

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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As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity. – James Agee

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When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint…were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift. – James Agee

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Actors, Acting
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they dont come, I choose the ones that pay the rent. – Michael Caine

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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. – Bertolt Brecht

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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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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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