Inspiring Words

One of first teachers told me something.
They were like,“It's not about where you get, and it's not about what things do.
It's the process.
If you don't enjoy acting, if you don't enjoy the class, if you don't enjoy doing the work, then don't do it.
If you're gonna do it to get somewhere, then forget it, because this is what being an actor is.
It's doing the work. It's being in the class. It's going through. It's failing. It's getting up. It's getting down.
That's what it is. It's nothing else.”

--- Jennifer Lopez, Inside the Actors Studio (October 15, 2004)

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want.
And if they can't find them, make them.

--- George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

--- Albert Einstein

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

--- Nicolas M. Butler

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

--- William A. Ward

First-rate people hire first-rate people. Second-rate people hire third-rate people.

--- Leo Rosten

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain --- and most fools do.

--- Dale. Carned

True genius lies not in doing extraordinary thing, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

--- Louis H. Wilson

Patience is a good weapon.
-You either progress or regress. Why not go forward?
-Don't sweat the small stuff.

(Inside the Actor's Studio)