May 15, 2012 • 6 notes
I wish I had learned this sooner: Stop trying to figure out what ‘they’ want and trying to fit into that. Find what it is about yourself that is unique and interesting and powerful that you feel is your strength. Don’t necessarily get your nose fixed and your teeth fixed and your breasts done or whatever else you think you should do because you think they’re looking for that. Because if you really look at the people who are successful, most of them just have a quality where they’re being true to themselves, and we find that interesting and want to watch them. Whatever the quality is that makes you uniquely you, that’s what you should foster and groom and take care of and protect. Don’t try to mess it up, because you’re just going to dilute everything.
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May 13, 2012
My play for today! One of the earliest plays I worked on; I’d forgotten how funny it is. Or maybe I was just too bandage-busy to notice first time round ;)

My play for today! One of the earliest plays I worked on; I’d forgotten how funny it is. Or maybe I was just too bandage-busy to notice first time round ;)

May 8, 2012 • 8 notes • guilherme7

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May 6, 2012 • 88 notes • itsanamazinglie

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May 5, 2012 • 12,499 notes • leahblaine
Nobody tells an actor, ‘you’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men are strong-minded. A strong-minded woman is a different animal.

Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women.”

#god had a second child #her name is meryl streep

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May 4, 2012 • 9 notes

Dreams by Langston Hughes.

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow. 

~ Langston Hughes
April 30, 2012 • 13 notes • faeriequeen

Sam West talking about female masturbation. (And Shakespeare.)

faeriequeen:

You’re welcome.

April 11, 2012 • 1,956 notes • couragehopestrength

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April 10, 2012 • 3 notes • vanillacomedy
Comedy is learned; you get better as you go along. Men who emerge as professional comedians grow up within a dense masculine culture of joke-making and have been honing their skills ever since they started school. Girls have nothing similar of their own and are not invited to horn in on the guys’ act. When men in the audience give women comedians a hard time, it is because the sharing of the joke is an important male bonding mechanism. We might also ask ourselves why the women in the audience cannot counterbalance male uneasiness with loyalty and enthusiasm for comedians of their own sex. Can it be that women are programmed to laugh at men’s jokes, as they are not to the jokes of their sisters? Comedian Arthur Smith once said, “Women don’t get shags after gigs. Men do.” This may be more revealing than Smith knows. Women comedians are probably not looking for shags in any case; if they were, they probably couldn’t say so.
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April 9, 2012 • 3,440 notes • nevver

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