Famous quotes containing the words successful, child and/or actor:
“Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)
“At bottom there is in Joyce a profound hatred for humanitythe scholars hatred. One realizes that he has the neurotics fear of entering the living world, the world of men and women in which he is powerless to function. He is in revolt not against institutions, but against mankind.... Ulysses is like a vomit spilled by a delicate child whose stomach has been overloaded with sweetmeats.”
—Henry Miller (18911980)
“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”
—Charlie Chaplin (18891977)