Quotes of the Hour
"The whole man ceases to exist in the idealized home situation because he obsesses on his profession at the expense of his family life. The more you become a success, the more you fail. The main social aim of family is to be a stabilizing force to keep away the bruatality of ouside life. One problem... it doesn't work."
- Henrik Ibsen
"It's Not good to be an actor in the rules of middle-class society. It is still not good. Art is frowned upon by the middle class."
- Stella Adler
"We have a lot of good engineers but very few good artists. All the honor, however, goes to the latter, or rather, one should say, those who stand in for the latter in the eyes of the many. The real artists don't need this kind of support and are instead weakened by it. The money-maker is not the most appetizing personality, but he is far preferable to the intellectual phony."
- Allan Bloom