I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire for diversity and exploration in acting roles.
Tim Curry emphasizes the importance of versatility and challenge in an acting career. He values the ability to play a wide range of characters instead of being confined to a single type, as this diversity keeps him engaged and excited about his craft.
In practice
In a workshop about acting, a mentor might use this quote to inspire actors to seek diverse roles.
Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is to see what happens if you let the whole thing go. And the dog or the character really runs about, bites everyone in sight, jumps up trees, falls into lakes, gets wet, and you let that happen. That's the excitement of writing plays-to allow the thing to be free but still hold the final leash.
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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