Linux Art

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call
what he writes fiction.
                -- William Faulkner

A yawn is a silent shout.
                -- G.K. Chesterton

A young man wrote to Mozart and said:

Q: "Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing symphonies. Can you give me any
   suggestions as to how to get started?"
A: "A symphony is a very complex musical form, perhaps you should begin with
   some simple lieder and work your way up to a symphony."
Q: "But Herr Mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old."
A: "But I never asked anybody how."

Acting is an art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

Acting is not very hard.  The most important things are to be able to laugh
and cry.  If I have to cry, I think of my sex life.  And if I have to laugh,
well, I think of my sex life.
                -- Glenda Jackson

Actor                   Real Name

Boris Karloff           William Henry Pratt
Cary Grant              Archibald Leach
Edward G. Robinson      Emmanual Goldenburg
Gene Wilder             Gerald Silberman
John Wayne              Marion Morrison
Kirk Douglas            Issur Danielovitch
Richard Burton          Richard Jenkins Jr.
Roy Rogers              Leonard Slye
Woody Allen             Allen Stewart Konigsberg

Actors will happen even in the best-regulated families.

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.
                -- Addison Mizner and Oliver Herford, "The Entirely
                New Cynic's Calendar", 1905

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
                -- actress Mary Pickford, 1925

Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something
strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson