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You`re always playing yourself. It`s all autobiography, whatever you`re doing. It`s using them as a kind of prism through which to throw something real about yourself, or something relaxed at least. Because the last thing you want is to look like you`re acting.

- Tilda Swinton

I`m a reader, you know. I was corrupted by Faust. And Shakespeare. And Proust. And Hemingway. But mostly I was corrupted by Dylan Thomas. Most people see me as a rake, womanizer, boozer and purchaser of large baubles. I`m all those things depending on the prism and the light. But mostly I`m a reader. Give me Agatha Christie for an hour and I`m happy as a clam. The house in Celigny some day will cave in under its own weight from the books. I hope I`m there when it does. One hundred six years old. Investigating the newest thriller from Le Carré or a new play from Tennessee Williams.

- Richard Burton

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

- Harry Hamlin

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

- Bruce Dickinson

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.

- Alex Cejka

How can we start to look at life through the prism of poker?

- Arthur Dobrin