Kenneth Noland Quotes
I have to work things out by painting them. I can't just imagine what will happen. I have to do it and see it. That's the only way I find out if it will go anywhere.
Quotes to Explore
-
As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
-
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
-
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
-
I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
-
Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
-
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-
Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
-
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
-
I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
-
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
-
You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
-
I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
-
I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
-
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
-
My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
-
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
-
Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
-
The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
-
Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
-
Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.
-
We usually work 14-hour days, and sometimes 16 to 18 days, which doesn't leave much time for anything else - most Sundays are spent recovering.
-
I'm sure all actors have trouble. The guy who always plays the funny guy, he wants to be taken seriously. And there's the action guy who wants to do serious stuff. Everyone's grass is greener.
-
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
-
I have to work things out by painting them. I can't just imagine what will happen. I have to do it and see it. That's the only way I find out if it will go anywhere.
