Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Maxwell Martin

As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.

Lesley Garrett

Seeing that made me understand how profound the drama of opera was and how music theatre is the most powerful audiovisual form there is.

Jack Smith

This is a tremendous send off to our 75th anniversary. To start with a musical represents what Wheaton Drama is all about, which is having fun.

Jack Smith

This is a tremendous send off to our 75th anniversary, ... To start with a musical represents what Wheaton Drama is all about, which is having fun.

Brian Blessed

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

Channing Tatum

Comedy doesn't come easy for me. I've only done 2 movies that are really comedy-style films and I have to work at them. And they're just as scary in a way. I hate labeling all these things; comedy, love stories, dark drama, whatever.

Jane Addams

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

Desi Arnaz

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Delta Goodrem

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

Tina Charles

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Damon Albarn

Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.

Syd Barrett

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

Thomas Dolby

If you think back to the '70's, there were these new tools, with very few people using them in pop music. There's a real parallel with that now.

Thomas Dolby

If you're Take That for example, you don't need to be seen in the studio. But they have their own fans, and their fans would like a way to get closer.

Robin Gibb

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

David Coverdale

I remember when I was a teenager, the epitome of success for us was Top of the Pops in those days, because we really had no idea.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

John Curtin

As a member of our team you played the game. Now you form a team with a man of your heart for the highest natural purpose.

Menander of

A woman is necessarily an evil, and he is a lucky man who catches her in the mildest form

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

George Eliot

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

Channing Toney

People used to make fun of my form also, but I stayed with my form, so I think it's important for him to stay with it.

H. Hunt

People don't have to be in spiffy uniforms: they can... just so long as they can form a military presence and impress the population.

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Sarah Hale

Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of home.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Henry Giles

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Jason Mraz

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

Josh Homme

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

Kaskade

People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

AJ Case

After Wild Child, I had pretty much had it with the music business.

James Michael Tyler

Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'

Katie Melua

The style of music I make now, that only started when I was about 15,

Sandra Boynton

the sounds of the words are music in a way.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

Patricia Myers

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

Bruce Beresford

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Elizabeth Bowen

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

Andrea Bocelli

I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.

Andrea Bocelli

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

Don DeLillo

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

Martin Anderson

Reagan is more powerful today than when he was president.

Vicente Fox

The storm is very powerful and very threatening,

Brian Roberts

This is a powerful breakthrough. It's a continuation in the personalization of television.

Brandon Sanderson

Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.' Kelsier leaned forward again. 'But, you weren't born an aristocrat. You're not noble, Vin. You don't have to play by their rules--and that makes you even more powerful.

Baha'u'llah

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Brenda Ueland

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Jane Campion

I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.

John Gregory

a sense of well-being so profound that I did not want to go to sleep.

Marilynne Robinson

Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

Mariska Hargitay

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

Nicole Krauss

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

Montgomery Clift

James Dean’s death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don’t know why,

Michel de Montaigne

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Gary Zukav

Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this most profound way, we are held responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.

Hilary Swank

I feel like I've had a really great intense relationship with every single Director I've ever worked with. I can't say there's one that hasn't been deep and profound in its own way.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

Pete Hughes

Seeing him get the victory at 103 made me want it just as much.

Tony Soprano

I was seeing a therapist myself about a year ago, ... I had some issues.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing us on TV. We're on TV so much, it's ridiculous.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing it on TV. I'm sure they are.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Kevin Sheridan

Remember, this has only been operational for 90 days. What you're seeing is version 1.1.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Carl Anderson

I keep seeing them go up, up, up.

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?

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Rick Clausen

The most important thing is understanding your role,

Jim Roddey

I understand the manufacturers don't want the supplier network, and I can understand why.

Princess Diana

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will ever know yourself.

Bob Beauprez

I understand what you're against, but I don't know what you're for.

P. Herbert

I understand we all take it for granted,

Rita Ora

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.