Henrik Ibsen Quotes
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
-
I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
-
I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
-
We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
-
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
-
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
-
I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!
-
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
-
I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
-
I was in a convent for a year.
-
And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
-
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
-
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
-
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
-
Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
-
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
-
Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
-
One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
-
Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
-
You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.
-
I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
-
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
-
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, an evasion simply muddles 'em.
-
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
