I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.
I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.
[first lines] Burt Munro: [rolling a distance gauge] 93... 94... 95... 96... 97...
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ..... "As distance always doesn't ensure solutions
Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception.
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
If you are going a long way, go slowly.
On a long journey, even a straw weighs heavy.
As long as there is one person suffering an injustice; as long as one person is forced to bear an unnecessary sorrow; as long as one person is subject to an undeserved pain, the worship of a God is a demoralizing humiliation. As long as there is one ...
