What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion the need the desire the caring the fear.
There is no nation so powerful as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason but from passion.
The strongest passion is fear.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Fear is the passion of slaves.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.
There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool then obviously the Beatles and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
The love of the famous like all strong passions is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically and it is independent of persons.
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what in fact does is having a cause having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy you know. Killers even.
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
Music was your real passion this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family passionate relationships dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.
Being a Barrymore didn't help me other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion an honest passion just do it.