Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

Love turns with a little indulgence to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene or even health is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or better still feel a healthy indifference to it.

I never said 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say oh God I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.