Steven Shainberg Quotes

If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception.

Steven Shainberg

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• Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Kind
  • Style

• You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Passion
  • Creative

• How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Law
  • Action
  • Fast

• My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Think
  • Game
  • Like

• I do not cook.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Cook

• I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Life
  • Done
  • Water

• Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Sleep
  • Fly
  • Ice Cream

• Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Evil
  • Spiritual
  • Chance

• Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Fish
  • Birds

• The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Intelligence

• I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Career
  • Play
  • Characters

• I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Existence
  • Warrior
  • Forefathers

• I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Over

• There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Appreciate

• I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Song
  • Relationship
  • Feelings

• It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Dream
  • Moment
  • Happen

• To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

  

  William Blake
  • Knowledge
  • Possess
  • Idiots

• I loved playing Jackie on 'Happy Endings.' It was really exciting to be in the pilot and then be able to come back. Her character was so much fun!

  

  Mikaela Hoover
  • Character
  • Playing
  • Really

• When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

  

  Steven Sinofsky
  • Share
  • Structure
  • Complex

• If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception.

  

  Steven Shainberg
  • Happen
  • Script
  • Exception