Jonathan Groff Quotes

I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Soul
  • Identity
  • Playing

• I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Drug
  • Meaning

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Need
  • Economy
  • Bank

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Dark
  • Sometimes

• Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Believe
  • Man
  • You

• My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • English
  • Mother`s

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Beliefs

• If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Dream

• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Art
  • History
  • Words

• I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • People
  • Stop
  • Late

• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Always
  • Serious
  • Data

• Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Chicken

• It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Life
  • Money
  • Single

• Embrace the fear and go for it. That's what I do. I don't run from it - I embrace the fear.

  

  Jamie Brewer
  • Fear

• None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Fear

• For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Growing

• If I am offered good roles, I will definitely be back in Malayalam, anytime.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Good

• I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Career
  • Theatre