J. F. C. Fuller Quotes
I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be good; you just have to be the right type.
Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.
You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.
I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career.
I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius."
I started out old, but I have to say that I've been very lucky to work consistently since I started. I've really never been out of work.
It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.
I always liked to go to Vancouver to shoot, because I think Vancouver's a beautiful city.
I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.
Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.
The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.
... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.
Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.
there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.
The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.
The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.
The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.
There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.
Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.
If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.
I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.
Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.
Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.
I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.
