Scott Cohen Quotes

I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as an artist is to reach some form of catharsis yourself, and express something that allows an audience to have some form of catharsis. If there's no discovery in what you do, if there's no struggle in what you do to have that discovery, then, there's no meaning in what you do.

Scott Cohen

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• When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Car
  • Waiting

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Want
  • Philosophy

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • House
  • Me
  • Star

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reborn
  • Sanctuary

• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hate

• There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Money
  • Done
  • True

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Movies

• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • World
  • America

• I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Business
  • City
  • Successful

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Box

• Be happy in your own skin.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Happy
  • Skin
  • Be Happy

• Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • America
  • Think
  • Community

• Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Successful
  • Being
  • Pet

• I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Writing

• I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Hand

• Elvis stole his sideburns from me.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Stole

• Truth be told, I don’t really prepare much. I’m not a very serious actor in those regards. I learn my lines, I show up, I take direction.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Serious

• I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as an artist is to reach some form of catharsis yourself, and express something that allows an audience to have some form of catharsis. If there's no discovery in what you do, if there's no struggle in what you do to have that discovery, then, there's no meaning in what you do.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Artist