Jesse Kellerman Quotes

Art requires choices, the more specific, the better.

Jesse Kellerman

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• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

  

  Randy West
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Audience

• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Believe
  • History
  • Struggle

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Competition
  • Talent
  • Back

• I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Night
  • Jazz

• It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Sad
  • Right

• In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Look

• I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Me
  • Creative

• You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfectionist
  • Self-Critical

• Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Up
  • Going
  • Everyone

• We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • You
  • Couple
  • Pride

• Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Old

• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Mysterious

• I'm a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

  

  Alexander Hanson
  • Career
  • Question
  • Celebrity

• Families interest me - I'm part of one; most of us come from one. And I'm curious about the choices made in life, how they affect things, and how those choices happen.

  

  Anne Meara
  • Life
  • Choices

• In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.

  

  George Gilder
  • Choices
  • Creativity
  • Liberty

• Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.

  

  Sarah J. Maas
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Suffer

• Art requires choices, the more specific, the better.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Art
  • Choices