Phyllida Lloyd Quotes

I think I wanted to do something that retained the improvised chaos of 'Mamma Mia' the theatre show which set it apart from all the slick packaged productions.

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• I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • History
  • Proud
  • Bible

• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Life
  • Help
  • Death

• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Religious

• I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Parents
  • My Life

• I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Twitter
  • Commercial
  • Applications

• With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Thought
  • Personality
  • Voice

• Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Theater

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Week
  • My Own
  • Bullets

• I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Think
  • Start
  • Pressure

• I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Hands
  • Two
  • Give

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Nothing
  • More

• The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

  

  Joe Baca
  • Stop
  • Hurt

• I would love to do a Bond song, and I could have done a Bond song: I was offered a Bond theme, but I turned it down because I didn't like the song. But as it turned out, I was right anyway because the song was the only Bond theme that never became a hit, so I'm glad I wasn't associated with that!

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Done
  • Song

• So I told him I'd sell him a new wheel at cost, and I ordered it, but later he came in and said he'd gone elsewhere and came in only to tell me that. He was pretty belittling, and he had to tell me I was no good. Where it ended up, I asked him not to come back.

  

  Brad Stewart Shinedown
  • Good
  • Cost
  • Belittling

• I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.

  

  Art Donovan
  • Remember
  • Training
  • Marine

• I think I wanted to do something that retained the improvised chaos of 'Mamma Mia' the theatre show which set it apart from all the slick packaged productions.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Theatre
  • Chaos