Epictetus/influence/acting

Famous quotes containing the words influence and/or acting:

    “If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing would be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts with which all moralists abound.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.”
    —Glenda Jackson (b. 1937)