Terrence Mann famous quotes

06-15-2025

Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.
The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors.
Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
Isn't television glamourous?
I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
Rich could play way better than Krupa.
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!
Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

You may also like: