John Lahr Quotes
'The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.
Quotes to Explore
-
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
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.
-
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
-
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
-
I'm not the girl next door.
-
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
-
I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
-
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
-
They say women and music should never be dated.
-
I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
-
Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
-
We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
-
My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
-
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
-
Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
-
I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
-
The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.
-
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
-
Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
-
The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.
-
I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.
-
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.
-
'The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.
