All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.
Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.
You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.
Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
We all bear scars,. . . Mine just happen to be more visible than most.
We each survive in our own way.
You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.
The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.
A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.
For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.
And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.