Eve Ensler Quotes
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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.
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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.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.
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I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
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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.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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There is nothing like understanding that your work has touched somebody. That is the sole purpose of acting. To be able to move and inspire. If I can do that for one person it is already changing the world and that makes me feel accomplished.
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A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.
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Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.
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Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
