Eve Ensler Quotes

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

Eve Ensler

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• Social Change
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• I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Road

• Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Good
  • School
  • Passion

• As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Time
  • Football
  • Year

• Smoke machines are the best!

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Best
  • Machines
  • Smoke

• A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Company
  • Customers
  • Workers

• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Pride

• My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Why
  • Best
  • Ideas

• Your belief system saturates the space around you.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • You
  • Space
  • Belief

• I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Freedom
  • Value
  • Democracy

• More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Happiness
  • Wellbeing

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Husband
  • View
  • Point Of View

• What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Country
  • Business
  • Information

• I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.

  

  Flume
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Beauty

• I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • Nice
  • Clothes

• Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Help
  • Me
  • Always

• Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Thinking
  • Emotional
  • Eternity

• The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Movie
  • Films
  • Theater

• The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Inspire

• Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet and who, from the audience, in street clothes, watches the other actors for a moment, making herself inconspicuous, not wanting anyone to pay attention to her.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Attention
  • Moon
  • Actors

• The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

  

  Robert Zoellick
  • World
  • Poor
  • Chaos

• Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Theater
  • Inspire
  • Social Change