Denis O'Hare Quotes
When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.
Quotes to Explore
-
Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
-
Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
-
Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
-
I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
-
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
-
Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
-
My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
-
I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
-
I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
-
If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
-
I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
-
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
-
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
-
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
-
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
-
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
-
The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.
-
Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
-
What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.
-
My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.
-
In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.
-
I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.
-
I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing 'A Time to Kill.' Had no idea what I was doing. It became, over a period of several years, a secret little hobby nobody knew about except my wife, because she was reading chapter by chapter.
-
When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.
