When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.


John Boorman

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My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and t...
JOHN TYLER
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make fr...
JOHN WOODEN
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.
JOHN BURDETT
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
JOHN LYDON
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one...
JOHN WOODEN
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
JOHN ENSIGN
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in...
JOHN GRIERSON
We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If ...
JOHN TYLER
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
JOHN STERLING
I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t...
JOHN LEGEND
When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and...
JOHN BOYEGA
In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit...
JOHN LASSETER
A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a g...
JOHN ROOS
For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me be...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
JOHN KEATS
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
JOHN WEBSTER
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
JOHN LUBBOCK
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, ...
JOHN BERGER
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
JOHN MILTON
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the ...
JOHN MILTON
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
JOHN MILTON