Betty Comden Quotes
At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
Quotes to Explore
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.
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When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.
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What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.
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I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can't believe that I'm an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.
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I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.
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At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
