Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

Alan Watts

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

Alan Moore

I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.

Chloe Sevigny

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

Chogyam Trungpa

The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

Chin-Ning Chu

Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

Edward Gibbon

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

David Twohy

We got together and realized that Universal made it clear that they were out of the Riddick business. They didn't want to spend that kind of money anymore. So, it was going to be an independent movie.

David Ricardo

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

Chris Burke

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

Chow Yun-Fat

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

Chloe Grace Moretz

As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something, because I always want to be like "I can do it and I'll show you I can, and I'll do it better than anyone can".

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

Eddie Murphy

The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.

David Duchovny

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

David Brinkley

Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.

Benedict Cumberbatch

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

Elaine Vogel

For a long time, we were the only theater in town. And it may be the only theater in Nyack again.

Brian Baumgartner

I come from straight theater.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Didi Conn

I love working in the theater.

Elaine Vogel

This theater is actually always busy. There's so much going on here.

Robert Brustein

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Tom Stoppard

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

Sophie McShera

I tend to go to the theater a lot. Ive always loved it.

Laura Marano

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!