Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown. ' It's a nice illusion … - Charles Kimbrough

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Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of Yoga Science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the Divine vision in the Universe.

Charles Kimbrough

Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown. ' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.

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I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

Actors, Companies, Expanding, Firsts, School, Sudden

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

Class, Come, Father, Mother, Pianist

I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's what I liked to do most. There must have been a moment when I felt, 'Oh, my God, I like this and what am I going to do about it?

Acting, Break, Feelings, Felt, God, Want

I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.

Attache, Case, Guy, Hands, Self, Slightly

When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.

Character, Laugh, Night, Prayer, Raising, Starting