Quotes by Actors - Page 50

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
Orson Welles
The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark of the will o'the wisp, the Jack o'lantern, the ignis fatuus [foolish fire] beloved of poets, which lights up one source of history and then another, zigzagging across the marsh, connecting and linking and writing bright words across the dark face of the present. There's no phrase I can come up that will encapsulate in a winning sound-bite why history matters. We know that history matters, we know that it is thrilling, absorbing, fascinating, delightful and infuriating, that it is life. Yet I can't help wondering if it's a bit like being a Wagnerite; you just have to get used to the fact that some people are never going to listen.
Stephen Fry
Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.
Tom Hiddleston
[On school uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.
George Carlin
What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
Orson Welles
The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark of the will o'the wisp, the Jack o'lantern, the ignis fatuus [foolish fire] beloved of poets, which lights up one source of history and then another, zigzagging across the marsh, connecting and linking and writing bright words across the dark face of the present. There's no phrase I can come up that will encapsulate in a winning sound-bite why history matters. We know that history matters, we know that it is thrilling, absorbing, fascinating, delightful and infuriating, that it is life. Yet I can't help wondering if it's a bit like being a Wagnerite; you just have to get used to the fact that some people are never going to listen.
Stephen Fry
Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.
Tom Hiddleston
[On school uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.
George Carlin
Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people
Robert Redford
Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people.
Robert Redford
Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was clever, what exercises he did to keep his brain fit. Healey had laughed."It's memory, Cartwright, old dear. Memory, the mother of the Muses... at least that's what thingummy said."
Stephen Fry
The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.
Robert Reed
Oh Satan you're a wily one.
Craig Ferguson
With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.
Craig Ferguson
Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.
Craig Ferguson
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
George Carlin
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
Kevin Smith
When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of Self.
Brad Pitt
Spencer Tracy, when asked for advice on acting, said, “Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.” James Cagney said, “Walk in, plant your feet, look the other fellow in the eye and…tell the truth.” With all due respect to both of these giant talents, I would have to say there’s something more. The true creation of a being, a character other than one’s self, for me is comparable to a mystical or spiritual experience. To stand in another person’s shoes. To see as he sees, to hear as he hears. To know what he knows, and to do all this with a sense of control, a mastering of the dramatic moment, there must be more than a “natural talent” at work.
Leonard Nimoy
The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind.
Prince
I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it
Craig Ferguson
Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.
Craig Ferguson
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
Dana Carvey
Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
But one day he said to me:‘I’ve got it now. It’s reading isn’t it?’‘I’m sorry?’‘You read a lot, don’t you? That’s where it all comes from. Reading. Yeah, reading.’The next time I saw him he had a Herman Hesse novel in his hands. I never saw him again without a book somewhere on his person. When I heard, some years later, that he had got into Cambridge I thought to myself, I know how that happened. He decided one day to read.
Stephen Fry
In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!
RuPaul
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
Mick Jagger
I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being
LeVar Burton
I wanna say something that I want you to remember for the rest of your life, OK? I want you to listen closely. I'm giving you a key to life right now, this is the key to life. The key to life, the key to life is running and reading. Oh right? Now listen very seriously, the key to life is running and reading. Right now, why running? When you're running and you are there and you're running there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says "Oh, I'm tired", "My lounge's about to pop", "I'm so hurt", "I'm so tired", "There's no way I can possibly continue". And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life. Running. Oh right? That's the first key to life. Reading. The reason the reading is so important. There've been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you can have with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything, there's no problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and wrote about it in a book. So they keys to life are running and reading.
Will Smith
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.
Steve Wright
Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.
Peter Ustinov
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Creativity is the result of renunciation on the journey of spiritual enlightenment, not of a thirst for glory or personal pride.
Ray Mancini
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.
Ashton Kutcher
It fascinates me that when we lose one of our five senses, the remaining four strengthen and rally to make sense of the world we live in. Even by closing our eyes for a moment, we find ourselves paying closer attention to the sounds around us. Perhaps this is why music can resonate so deeply within us; somehow our isolated senses allow our brains the space and perspective to connect these really beautiful dots of our own hearts and souls. I wonder if the act of giving our other senses a break ca
Ryan O'Neal
Realism is criminal.
Nuno Roque
I can certainly identify with The Villain. A Villain is someone who has a past, who is strongly opinionated, fearless, doesn't get intimated by anything, and went beyond suffering. It's an empowerment figure.
Nuno Roque
Sometimes people can be negative, especially about my confidence. I trust myself, I refuse to obey, and I noticed there is a need to punish me for it. But haters are important because they show you you're doing something right. I'm scared of unanimity, artists who everybody likes. When you speak your mind and you're loud, you will attract negativity. But I have thick skin, I think the fact that I was severely bullied in my childhood helped me build strength and believe in my artistic vision. I deal with rejection very well. I have a lifelong vision and an unbreakable spirit.
Nuno Roque
Sometimes people are shocked by what I do, but I'm not trying to be liked, I speak my mind and I don't care what people think. I truly do not compromise on who I am.
Nuno Roque
I'm like a circus standing on two legs.
Nuno Roque
I love the idea of reincarnation, so just in case it doesn't exist, I decided to be different people in the same lifetime.
Nuno Roque
I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.
Nuno Roque
I think we live in a time where artists are very tidy and afraid of what others might think. They hesitate in expressing their views and opinions. So being original is rare. For me, it's about living the life you create for yourself, to create your kingdom. I think we should work on being our unique selves and becoming our greatest versions. I like to remind people to take the power to live their life the way they wish.
Nuno Roque
I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert everything. I am like the originals buffoons. I love the rules because I can break them.
Nuno Roque
For me, every week is a fashion week.
Nuno Roque
My childhood was a drag show!
Nuno Roque
France, stop throwing awards at me! I have so many already, give them to people who need them.
Nuno Roque
A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine.
Nuno Roque
Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.
Nuno Roque
All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.
Nuno Roque
You know what? I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm gonna make art, arty art art!
Andy Biersack
I don’t want to sit there and be like, ‘Oh, I don’t care what the audience thinks.’ It does matter to me. I just want them to think, to be honest.
Donald Glover
True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.
Bruce Lee
If we really are saying rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you saying, it don’t matter that you didn’t make them die, it just matters that you didn’t save them.
Tupac Shakur
Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.
Vincent Price
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.
Yukio Mishima
It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances when you're not safe when you're not in the middle of the road...
Danny De Vito
If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.
Konstantin Stanislavski
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
Penn Jillette