This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter. – Henry Ward Beecher
I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadnt experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release. – Rufus Sewell