Christopher Durang Quotes

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

Christopher Durang

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• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Happiness

• Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Always
  • Dance

• Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Music
  • Business

• This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Business
  • Hell
  • Picked

• Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Religious

• I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Like
  • Social
  • Autism

• The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Role

• I'm not a one-issue person.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Person

• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Golf
  • Impossible

• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fun

• Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Darkness
  • Lights
  • Curse

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • God
  • Words

• I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Time
  • Important
  • Relationship

• Get off your horse and drink your milk.

  

  John Wayne
  • Horse

• In terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violence to yourself. That can be funny - we've all tripped and fallen on our faces.

  

  Andy Dick
  • Funny
  • Violence

• My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Balance

• Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Kids
  • Hope

• When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.

  

  Jose James
  • Done
  • Passion
  • Teenager

• Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

  

  Christopher Durang
  • Parents
  • Funny
  • Balance