John Astin Quotes
I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.
The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love.
My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.
It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.
One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.
I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.
Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.
Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.
I get into certain yoga positions at times, when Im working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.
There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed.
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.