Judith Malina Quotes

To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.

Judith Malina

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• When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Stage
  • Top
  • Over

• I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Myself
  • Stage
  • Off

• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Process

• I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Look

• Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Up
  • Looks
  • Price

• I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Nice
  • Band
  • Travel

• My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Stage

• At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Leader
  • Stage
  • Orchestra

• When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Song
  • Emotion
  • Stage

• Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Stage

• My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Looks

• I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Stage

• I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up

  

  Geoffrey Holder
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Knows

• As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Want

• She looks at me. She does. She.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • She
  • Looks

• The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Work
  • Important
  • Moments

• There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Looks
  • Bird
  • Boys

• Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Want
  • Will
  • Opinions

• If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Children
  • Movie
  • You

• Saint Christopher, who said, Where can I get a Frank Sinatra medal? Never got a dinner!

  

  Red Buttons
  • Dinner
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Christopher

• Boxers are going away and not getting decisions and are losing, so it's not looking good for us, is it, as a nation? Thanks for pointing that out. It's put even more pressure on me now. I don't mind that at all. I love pressure.

  

  Carl Froch
  • Mind
  • Decision
  • Sports

• I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Live
  • City

• To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.

  

  Judith Malina
  • Looks
  • Actors
  • Stage