#at

You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#another #energy #felt #i #interesting

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. ↗

— James Fenton

#back #herself #lullaby #mother #ogre

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. ↗

— James Fenton

#done #fine #fine thing #forgery #generous

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#being #cease #death #delightful #drowning

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. ↗

— Billy Graham

#death #deeply #how #hurts #loved

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids. ↗

— Gary Carter

#desires #i #i love #kids #love

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#also #being #casting #directors #fact

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#am #be nice #come #effort #enjoy

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#absolutely not #aristocratic #change #creature #exuberant

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#corpse #get #i #just #like