Jez Butterworth Quotes
I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
-
I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
-
'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
-
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
-
Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
-
The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
-
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
-
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
-
Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
-
You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.
-
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
-
If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
-
On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.
-
I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.
-
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
-
Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
-
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
-
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
-
In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
-
The venom I witnessed in that courtroom going through this trial for the second time both terrified me and saddened me.
-
Our reason is our law.
-
'Little Princess' was the first big movie that I did in America with big stages where we had kind of a different schedule to work. We had a great production designer, Bo Welch, and we had time to think about the movie in pre-production.
-
I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.
