Day 85/100

Day 85/100:

"(As an actor), you're giving people little tiny pieces of time they'll never forget." - Jimmy Stewart

Day 84/100

Day 84/100:

"The real actor, like the artist, has a direct line to the creative heart." - Bette Davis

Day 83/100

Day 83/100:

"The more fully I grasp not just how a character behaves, but why he behaves, the more I find that my patience with people and my understanding of them grows.  I seldom get mad." -Jack Lemmon

Day 82/100

Day 82/100:

"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water." - Robert Bresson

Day 81/100

Day 81/100:

"I don't try to guess what a million people will like.  It's hard enough to know what I like." - John Huston

Day 80/100:

"I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary." - Werner Herzog

Day 79/100:

"Living at risk is jumping off a cliff and building your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury

Day 78/100:

"I prefer to be like a gambler; if you don't throw, you'll never know." - Robert DeNiro

Day 77/100:

"Love the craft, the practice of your art... in other words, being on the plateau... and the peaks will come." - Dennis Palumbo

Day 76/100:

"Fear makes you run one way.  Courage makes you run the other." - John Huston

Day 75/100:

"The oddest thing about this whole funny business is that the public really wants to laugh, but it's the hardest thing to make them do it.  They don't want to cry, yet they will cry at the slightest provocation." - Harry Langdon

Day 74/100:

"In the end, everything is a gag." - Charlie Chaplin

Day 73/100:

"A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast." - Groucho Marx

Day 72/100:

"Laughter is much more important than applause.  Applause is almost like a duty.  Laughter is a reward.  Laughter means they trust and like you." - Carol Channing

THIS WEEK: All quotes specifically about COMEDY.

Day 71/100:

"Laughter is an instant vacation." - Milton Berle

Day 70/100:

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it is his dedication." - Marlon Brando

Day 69/100:

"If you give audiences a chance, they'll do half the acting for you." - Katharine Hepburn

Day 68/100:

"Just be truthful.  And if you can fake that, you've got it made." - Barbara Stanwyck

Day 67/100:

"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next." - Nora Ephron

Day 66/100:

"My agent said: 'You aren't good enough for movies.'  I said, 'You're fired.'" - Sally Field