Phyllida Lloyd Quotes
I realized that I didn't think I could stand the psychological battering that actors have to withstand. I just felt I wasn't cut out for that kind of self-promotion.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
-
Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
-
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
-
In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
-
When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
-
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
-
Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
-
You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
-
To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.
-
I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.
-
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
-
I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.
-
My signature jam is damson or quince, and it's called 'Kate's Sweet and Sticky'. Basically, I'm a domestic goddess.
-
Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin - we're talking about hundreds of millions, billions of dollars moving in - it's going to have a pretty dramatic effect on the price.
-
If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.
-
China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.
-
If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.
-
A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
-
So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.
-
It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.
-
I do not like producers.
-
America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy - the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all human thought for the USA.
-
But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.
-
I realized that I didn't think I could stand the psychological battering that actors have to withstand. I just felt I wasn't cut out for that kind of self-promotion.
