Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
Copy QuoteI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Copy Quote View & ShareDemocracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Copy Quote View & ShareRightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Copy Quote View & ShareDemocracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
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