The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.
Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.
The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.
I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are nowEntertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.
First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.
The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.
It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.
writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.
Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness
There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.
Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.
Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.
The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.
Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.
One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.
It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.
However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful.
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
The bottom line is, you can't be afraid to fail.