Joan Blondell Quotes
There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I'd hate to see them on stage with a dog act.Joan Blondell
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I have worked with some great directors.
Dabney Coleman -
If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
Iris Chang -
I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
Federico Fellini -
I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
Zachary Quinto -
That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
Ian Hart -
American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
Imelda May
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
Ze Frank -
I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
Fiona Shaw -
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
Nana Mouskouri -
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Nathalie Sarraute -
I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
Naveen Jain -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
Victoria de los Angeles -
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
Jackie DeShannon -
Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
Nathan Parsons -
Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
Natalie Dormer
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I'm largely in favor of financial reform.
Fareed Zakaria -
I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
Dennis Rodman -
With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
Tana French -
Most of the time, I'm pleased that people don't recognize me. But I don't hate it when they do.
Peter Finch -
There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I'd hate to see them on stage with a dog act.
Joan Blondell