Jennifer Garner Quotes

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

Jennifer Garner

• Television
• Stage
• Broadway
• Auditioning

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• A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Stage
  • Ready
  • Stage Fright

• When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Stage
  • Ego

• It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Stage
  • Comparison
  • Unfair

• I worked on 'Game Of Thrones' for six years, so I'm very well equipped to handle hype surrounding television shows.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Game
  • Television
  • Hype

• I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Sports
  • Television
  • News

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Stage

• I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

  

  LaToya London
  • Play
  • Picture
  • Motion

• I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Myself
  • Television
  • Mirrors

• HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Start

• When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Stage
  • Top
  • Over

• Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Right
  • Everything
  • Stage

• Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • First
  • Stage
  • Without

• I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

  

  Kajol
  • Great
  • Live
  • Change

• I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Television

• I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • Television

• Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • Night
  • Comedy

• I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?

  

  Everett Ruess
  • People
  • Acting
  • Longing

• If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Children
  • Movie
  • You

• He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Man
  • Single
  • Animal

• The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Important
  • Service
  • Yourself

• Then Saturday Night Live spawns... well, everything right down to American Pie 9, where all humor has to be irrelevant, which can get a little tiring.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • American
  • Night

• I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Television
  • Stage
  • Broadway