Jim Parsons Quotes
One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.
Quotes to Explore
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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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.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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I miss the days when girls would wear full long dresses and just stand onstage and sing. That's what I'm trying to bring back: that timeless element. I want to create music that people will be listening to in fifty years, you know?
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I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.
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I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
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One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.
