Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. That sounds superficial, but it's true, and look at the results.


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Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
THOMAS MANN
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions...
HORACE MANN
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN
Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.
HORACE MANN
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering...
HORACE MANN
Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
HORACE MANN
What is uttered is finished and done with.
THOMAS MANN
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, ...
THOMAS MANN
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once m...
THOMAS MANN
Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN
I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
SALLY MANN
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
THOMAS MANN
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also,...
THOMAS MANN
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced ...
AIMEE MANN
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversitie...
HORACE MANN
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endura...
THOMAS MANN
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
SALLY MANN
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ri...
HORACE MANN
Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.
LESLIE MANN
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
HORACE MANN
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions o...
HORACE MANN
For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to......
GABRIEL MANN
Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamon...
HORACE MANN
And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was neare...
THOMAS MANN
Child actors don't have great track records.
LESLIE MANN
The biggest problem is getting to work.
BARRY MANN
Once I get into it, then I'm into it.
BARRY MANN
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
BARRY MANN
I was very fortunate, though, to have a writing partner that truly is brilliant with words and at th...
BARRY MANN
I had already about five or six songs written just for myself, but I never thought I'd end up being ...
BARRY MANN
We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade a...
BARRY MANN
It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
BARRY MANN
And even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same ...
BARRY MANN
You're fools to try to be songwriters!
BARRY MANN
Being in her home state, she feels like she has something to prove.
ALI MANN
In the course of the game, those shots can be killers.
ALI MANN