Quotes

*** KEN FARMER 'S ***

QUOTES

Storytelling. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art
of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest,
of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
Of seeing what we say. How do we define this lively darting
about with words, this sort of brief smile of ideas which
should be Storytelling?
Guy de Maupassant

THE PAST IS DEAD, THE FUTURE IMAGINED, ONLY
TODAY EXISTS.

Ken Farmer

Advance confidently in the direction of your dreams with
no concept of failure.
Thoreau

We can shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
- Lao Tzu -

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Ken Farmer

Mediocrity sees only itself, but talent recognizes Genius.
Ken Farmer

The way one learns to walk is by falling.
Chinese Proverb

Take care that your Mouth and Eyes match.
Ken Farmer

The best actors do not let the wheels show.
- Henry Fonda -

The Teacher is like a tailor with an
infinite supply of cloth, but the cutting
and stitching is in accordance with
the dimensions of the student's body.
Ken Farmer

Fear is a little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Ken Farmer

It is what we think we know already
that often prevents us from learning.
- Claude Bernard -

In Theory, there is no difference between Theory and Practice.
In Practice, there is.
- Yogi Berra -

Logic opens the mind; Emotion opens the Heart.
Ken Farmer

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
John Cage

The actor is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing
without the work.
Ken Farmer

Don't ask me what I meant to express with my stories,
ask yourself, what they mean to you! -
Eugene O'Neill

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Matthew Henry

When people ask for criticism, they really want praise.
Ken Farmer

The pessimist complains about the wind;
the optimist expects it to change;
the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward

The biggest obstacle to creativity is not a lack
of imagination, but an abundance of fear.
Ken Farmer

There is no Learning without Change and no
Change without Learning.
Ken Farmer

Time and effort will normally take care of ignorance,
but stupid is forever.
Ken Farmer

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved
the absolute rejection of Authority.
Thomas Huxley

STORYTELLING IS SEEING WHAT YOU SAY.
Ken Farmer

You can get by on charm, wit, grit and bull shit
for about fifteen minutes.
After that, you'd better know something.
Ken Farmer

It's always easier to react than it is to think.
Ken Farmer

We never do anything well until we cease to
think about the manner of doing it.
William Hazlitt

A good story comes from the heart,
not the head.
Ken Farmer

The mind is everything; what you think,
you become.
Buddha

Enter the heart not through Understanding,
but Understanding through the heart.
Ken Farmer

Imagination is like love; the more you use it,
the more you have.
Ken Farmer

ACTORS LEARN TO ACT BY BEING BAD.
Ken Farmer

Acting on stage gives the actor; preparation,
repetition and instant feedback.
Ken Farmer

When we Intellectualize, we unlink from the Story.
Ken Farmer

Most Actors Analyze too Much and Create too Little.
Ken Farmer

Words are the least reliable purveyor of the Truth.
- Neale Donald Walsch -

Good enough Never is.
-Peter Brown-

If you don't know where you're going, when you
get there you'll be lost.
Yogi Berra

WISDOM GROWS IN DIRECT RATIO TO ONE'S
AWARENESS OF HIS OWN IGNORANCE.
-KF-

Never let yourself get between you
and your character.
- Michael Caine -

Acting, like Music, is more
Feelings and Instinct than Rules.
-Ken Farmer-

Actors never feel your bodies,
make your bodies feel you.
Kevin Spacey

Intellectualizing or analyzing a character is like
dissecting a frog; the frog always winds up dead.
-KF-

If you ever plan what you are going to do;
you are already in trouble.
-KF-

When in doubt; Do nothing.
-KF-

Learn the Dialogue, then Forget it;
Allow the Character to Create it.
-KF-

Shake the Dialogue 'till all the Words fall Away;
What is Left is True Acting.
-KF-

Have more than thou showest;
Speak less than thou knowest.
- Shakespeare -

Good Acting is never Observed;
it is Experienced.
-KF-

Always work from inside out; if you work from
the outside in, all you have is a dry husk."
- Meryl Streep -

IN ACTING, IT IS NOT THE SEEN, BUT
THE UNSEEN THAT IS MUSED UPON.
- KF -

Acting without Emotions is like an
Eagle without Wings.
-KF-

The Actor is the Brush;
Emotions are the Colors;
The Character is the Canvas.
-KF-

"True Teaching is only achieved by Example."
-Plato-

There is no Road to Happiness;
Happiness is the Road.
-KF-

Method Acting, like Mediocrity, sees only Itself.
-KF-

Dramatic Interpretation is a Result, not a Cause.
-KF-

For the Actor who Knows the Story,
Interpretation takes care of Itself.
-KF-

You Must See the Character Before You
Can Be the Character.
-KF-

Lend your Character your Equipment, then
get the Hell out of the Way.
-KF-

Once you know your own weaknesses, they cease to harm you.

-KF-

The only thing that is really sacred, is the 
integrity of your own mind.
- KF -

IT IS NOT THE SEEN, BUT THE UNSEEN THAT IS THE 
MOST INTERESTING.
- KF -

Acting comes from the heart, not the mind.
-KF-

You will learn only what your heart is prepared to accept.
-KF-

IT IS WHAT I LEARNED AFTER I KNEW IT ALL THAT I 
FOUND TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT.
-HARRY S. TRUMAN-

VOLUMN COMES FROM THE HEART, NOT THE VOICE.
-DENTON BLANE EVERETT-

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