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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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
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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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Andy Griffith and I spoke on the phone not too long before he died. I told him I loved him and he told me he loved me. He was a wonderful man.
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The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me.
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When I don’t know where to go and life feels a lot like a tornado, spinning me around without a place to land, there in chaos we lock eyes. You always show up right on time, swear you calm the storm at the touch of your hand.
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Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.
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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.
