Phillips Brooks Quotes
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
Quotes to Explore
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.
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I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.
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A great-great grandpa (there might be another great in there, I'm not sure) offered a gun and horse to anyone that would join the Confederacy in '64. Who cares if it was 1964. Give the guy a break. He had Alzheimer's and thought he was Jefferson Davis. (p. 5).
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Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.
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Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page in the German and British academic tradition.
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I think what's universal is the idea of auditioning. It's something that you do in every kind of job market. You audition every time you go on a date, you audition at a job interview, and it's always about trying to put the best version of yourself forward and seeing what sticks and what doesn't.
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I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.
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Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
