George Bernard Shaw Quotes
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
Quotes to Explore
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.
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When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
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I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.
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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
