Ellen Terry Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
-
We need workfare over welfare.
-
I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
-
'Srimanthudu' was very important for me and my career at that time, so I was tensed. But for 'Brahmotsavam,' honestly speaking, I am more excited because of its content. I have attempted something new, and I am keen to see how the audience receives it.
-
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
-
I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
-
I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
-
Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
-
The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
-
When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
-
No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
-
I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.
-
It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
-
There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.
-
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
-
I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
-
The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.
-
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
-
I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.
-
When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
-
The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.
-
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
-
We live in a very gynophobic society.
-
How Henry would have loved it.
