Exorcised Quotes

"I wanted to be a jockey when I was growing up. But I grew too tall. I grew to be six-one. It was devastating. Somehow acting came up, and that became my obsession. When that devastation happened with the jockey business I thought, `Okay, I don`t want to be the kind of actor who does just one thing.` So I thought, `I`ve got to get rid of my Texas accent.` I saw an ad in the back of Life magazine for John Gielgud doing Shakespeare - `The Ages of Man`. It came on a record, so I sent away for that. I listened to it until I completely exorcised my Texas accent. I moved to New York, and I got `Tender Mercies` and I had to get a Texas accent! I had to play a good ol` boy! So I called my brother. I would just talk to him!"

When I perform, I find myself exorcised of everything that keeps me trapped in my everyday life.

There is a beast in man that needs to be excersised, not exorcised.

I figure if I can perform it more times than I`ve seen the movies, I`ll have exorcised the demons.

OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell`s army exorcised a soldier`s obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.