Acting isn’t always about the amount of talent you have, or your ability to cry on command. The point is, how well can you take direction? How well can you put aside your own ideas or ego and listen to the ideas of the director and the people above you, while not giving up the passion and drive of that character? Shannon Purser Read Quote
One thing that I don’t think my critics realize about me is that I’ve been trained to look adversity in the face. Reggie White Read Quote
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. Douglass North Read Quote
It’s good to step out of the box, but don’t step out so far that you can’t get back in. Jason Statham Read Quote
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds. Carl Sandburg Read Quote
I have about 1,000 hours of myself on tape in a vault in Los Angeles. But I also have a photographic memory about my jokes, because they’re really about me; they’re my stories. Louie Anderson Read Quote
There was a magic about pulsars… no other things in the sky had such labels on them. Each one had its own distinct pulsing frequency, so it could be identified by anybody, including other creatures, after a long period of time and far, far away. Frank Drake Read Quote
If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always. Emanuel Ax Read Quote
I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be able to hang out. It was very tribal. There’s nice things in that. It’s culture; it’s roots for me. Paul Weller Read Quote
I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation. Christian Slater Read Quote
