Thomas Betterton quotes

Thomas Betterton quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.”
-- Thomas Betterton

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“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”
“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”

Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
“Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.”
“It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.”
“The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.”
“Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.”
“When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.”
“When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.”
“We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.”

Source : "The Crisis in a Nutshell: Quotes of the Week" by Aswini Periyasamy, www.newyorker.com. March 22, 2013.
“The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!”

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