Stephen Lang Quotes
You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.
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Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
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Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
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I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
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A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.
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I was the biggest Goldie Hawn fan, my entire life.
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The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.
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The demand is there. Farming has been tough over the years.
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Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.
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The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.
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Sometimes my scripts get so dissolved, and they're so different from when I wrote them originally, that I find it hard to find what I wrote in it.
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Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.
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When we start designing something, we sketch out ideas with a big, thick Sharpie marker, instead of a ball-point pen. Why? Pen points are too fine. They’re too high-resolution. They encourage you to worry about things that you shouldn’t worry about yet, like perfecting the shading or whether to use a dotted or dashed line. You end up focusing on things that should still be out of focus. A Sharpie makes it impossible to drill down that deep. You can only draw shapes, lines, and boxes. That’s good. The big picture is all you should be worrying about in the beginning.
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You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.
