Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara de Angelis

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Jack Bowman

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

Roger Angell

Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.

Roger Angell

The rest were just pieces I liked, pieces that seemed fresh to me when I went back to them, sometimes for the first time in a long time.

Larry McMurtry

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

Lloyd Alexander

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

Mitch Albom

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Jack Bowman

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

Peter Stone

A musical opens and everything is a surprise when the audience comes in. What you have to do is get used to knowing what to do - and do it quickly.

Trent Reznor

Just spent the day discussing touring up through next summer, then played our asses off to the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. As I'm walking to the bus to leave Sacramento as soon as I can, I learn Jerome is back in the hospital. I have no idea what this means.

Glenn Stanton

John and I are both very disturbed by audience members who don't conduct themselves well, regardless of which side they are on. But that is very rare. Most people seem thankful for the way and seriousness with which we engage the issue and our obvious respect for each other.

Zhang Ziyi

He creates characters that draw in an audience no matter what language they speak. His insight into the human heart crosses all boundaries. I know he is also making a huge influence in the lives of younger filmmakers and actors.

Rory Bruer

Having a Jim Carrey film over the holidays is a pretty sure bet. Audiences trust he'll have the goods, and they want to laugh and have a good time this time of year.

George Pierce Baker

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

Steve Earle

As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

Ingrid Jensen

There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the audiences in general there are so much more appreciative than big city audiences.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

Cillian Murphy

He obviously knows through his movies how to exploit terror, and he seems to be able to investigate fears that we all have and exploit them or magnify them. There's a particular way of doing films like this. There's a particular way to manipulate the audience to get sort of a reaction out of them, and he can do that.

Chris Porter

Knowing you're a part of this ... is something.

Katha Pollitt

knowing that it's there for them if they really need it.

Tiki Barber

Knowing Stray, he'll play. He was walking around, but he wasn't walking all right. But he's always ready to play, even when he's hurting, he's OK.

Bubba Tyer

Knowing Jon, he might have taken it off.

Mark Lewis

Knowing it's going to work is the rarest part of that equation. It was all at once for us.

Anthony Fauci

It is an indescribable experience knowing that what you are doing will have an impact on the lives... of millions of people.

Brenda Griffin

I can leave knowing that this school is operating smoothly.

Robert Collier

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

Richard Paul Evans

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Wayne Rooney

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

Virgil Thomson

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Zachary Levi

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

Warren Zevon

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Jim Sullivan

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

Tom Wopat

I had no real specific dream, other than I really wanted to do musical comedy. Even before that, when I was a small child, I wanted to be a singer.

Steven Hall

I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

David Oliver

Even if he doesn't get open, he opens something else up,

Mike Mason

We welcome that. Then it opens things up for our other talented receivers.

Frank Abagnale

The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it.

Kobe Bryant

He can play. I think he's been a surprise to people. Now I don't think he's so much a surprise anymore.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

John Heimlich

I will be very surprised if there is not a proposal.

Jeff Candage

I'd be surprised that he would do something like that.

W. Somerset Maugham

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

David Hayes

I'm surprised to see him doing so well