"Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
— Meryl Streep

"What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life."
— Vincent Price

"I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist. "
— Susan Sarandon

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. "
— Bette Davis

"Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art."
— Constantin Stanislavski (My Life in Art)

""I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.""
— Martha Graham

"I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself"
— Antonin Artaud (The Theater and Its Double)

"Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect."
— Billie Burke

"Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions."
— Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches)

"Do or do not; there is no try."
— George Lucas (Science Fiction Film Stories)

"Always remember, your focus determines your reality."
— George Lucas