Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca Merblum

The one thing that is most difficult to communicate about what we do is what our lives are like. What does it mean to be an artist?

Charles Pyle

School divisions know that memos are the primary means we communicate with them.

Baruch Spinoza

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

Arthur Miller

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

Benjamin Banneker

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Brenda Ueland

everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

Jane Goodall

The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

Benjamin Disraeli

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Alan Lightman

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

Boris Spassky

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Andrzej Wajda

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

Andrei Tarkovsky

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Syd Barrett

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

Victor Garber

You can only do so much theatre.

Victor Hugo

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

Shaun Sipos

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

John Patrick Shanley

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

Max Irons

As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre... it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?

Dylan Moran

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

Mike Watt

Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.

Michael Cera

I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.

Donald Rupe

I don't think we've had a rehearsal where someone hasn't cried.

George S. Kaufman

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

Yanni

It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.

Jake Gyllenhaal

You have formal rehearsal, a lot of things you don't have in movies - which is, you have to formally rehearse. You have to know your back story, discuss it, and almost everybody onstage has to know each other's [story], so that when it comes time to actually do it, you can throw it all away. That's the way I like to - and I didn't realize until very recently - that's the way I like to prepare for movies.

Elisabeth Moss

When you audition for things, there's pressure to go in there with a complete performance, and it's kind of unfair because, if you get it, you'll have rehearsal and talk about it, and you'll have plenty of time with the script. So, for me, I really do feel like an audition is a sketch of what you might do.