Distilled Quotes

(on Alfred Hitchcock) He is the one who distilled the essence of film. He`s like Webster. It`s all there. I`ve used a lot of his grammar.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

I wanted to play a character that had clarity and knew what they wanted; I felt the distilled difference between myself and the character.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

You ask me why I do not write something....I think one`s feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.