Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Goldberg

I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.

Natalie Goldberg

Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

Tatiana Maslany

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

Tatiana Maslany

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

Tatiana Maslany

For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.

Tavis Smiley

I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five monologues that they know by heart, and I never had that. I've done Chekov and I've done Moliere and I've done classic stuff

Taraji P. Henson

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

Tara Reid

I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies, but I would love to get a big drama to let people see the other side of me, that I am a serious actress.

Tallulah Bankhead

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

Josh Lucas

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Josh Peck

You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.

Josh Radnor

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

Joshua Chamberlain

In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.

Joshua Homme

I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive.

Joseph Haydn

The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.

Kate Moss

Dressing is like modelling - you can constantly adapt.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!

Leonard Cohen

The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.

Leighton Meester

Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.

Leighton Meester

You know how you're supposed to choose between playing up your eyes or your lips? I always choose lips. I love the drama.

Layne Staley

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

Layne Staley

Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.

Laura Wilkinson

I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

Lars Frederiksen

I quit drugs before I quit drinking because drugs were taking their toll on me. I was sick of the headaches and the puking and the shitting blood. I figured I'd stop everything but alcohol, but then I overcompensated with drinking. Now I'm totally clean because I don't choose to do either.

Lanford Wilson

At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.

Lance Reddick

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

Langston Hughes

Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.

Langston Hughes

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

Langston Hughes

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

L. J. Smith

Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with him alone And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

John Keats

Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

John Keats

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

John Keats

A quote about drinking is a joy forever