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Edith Evans Quotes

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: english
Birth: February 8, 1885 - October 14, 1976

Topics

Courage You Acting Go Know Take

I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.

Time Day Video Games Game End You

I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one.

Love Me Diary Inspired Keep Because

I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up eight times a week and not have that time for myself; to do someone else's lines? When I work for Wendy Wasserstein or Terrence McNally, Neil Simon or even Shakespeare, I do not have the right to change the lines.

Work Love Change Live Time Myself

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

Life Chicago Where Sense Whole Very

What I do on film is part of my profession.

Amitabh Bachchan

Film Profession Part

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.

Mother Shoes Growing Up Fashion Up

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Wife Stubborn Say They Say Paid Off

I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.

Live Son Children Day Me Think

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

Michael Servetus

Devil Invention Destruction Infernal

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

Jonathan Gilbert

Result Sometimes Wheel Right Tire

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

Romantic Feel You Pure Level Means

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

Love Sports Great Boston Celebrities

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