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| #441 | | A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call
what he writes fiction.
-- William Faulkner
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| #442 | | A yawn is a silent shout.
-- G.K. Chesterton
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| #443 | | A young man wrote to Mozart and said:
Q: "Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing symphonies. Can you give me any
suggestions as to how to get started?"
A: "A symphony is a very complex musical form, perhaps you should begin with
some simple lieder and work your way up to a symphony."
Q: "But Herr Mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old."
A: "But I never asked anybody how."
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| #444 | | Acting is an art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
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| #445 | | Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh
and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh,
well, I think of my sex life.
-- Glenda Jackson
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| #446 | | Actor Real Name
Boris Karloff William Henry Pratt
Cary Grant Archibald Leach
Edward G. Robinson Emmanual Goldenburg
Gene Wilder Gerald Silberman
John Wayne Marion Morrison
Kirk Douglas Issur Danielovitch
Richard Burton Richard Jenkins Jr.
Roy Rogers Leonard Slye
Woody Allen Allen Stewart Konigsberg
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| #447 | | Actors will happen even in the best-regulated families.
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| #448 | | Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.
-- Addison Mizner and Oliver Herford, "The Entirely
New Cynic's Calendar", 1905
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| #449 | | Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
-- actress Mary Pickford, 1925
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| #450 | | Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something
strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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