I think good acting is always character acting.


William Sadler

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To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS
I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS
No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS
Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY