Stockard Channing (Susan Antonia Williams Stockard) Quotes

Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

Stockard Channing

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• Acting
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• I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Family
  • Black

• I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Real
  • History

• Salesmen always need something to sell.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Need
  • Something
  • Sell

• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Character
  • Together

• When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Want
  • Fear
  • Emotions

• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Friends
  • Stupid
  • Friendship

• O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Book
  • Day
  • Either

• I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Working Hard

• You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Effort

• The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Women
  • Need
  • Last

• There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Alone
  • Simple
  • Practice

• My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Mind
  • Parents
  • Helped

• We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • Real
  • City

• Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Work
  • Game
  • Preparation

• An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

  

  Edmund Burke

• Teaching kids to become something other than what they were born to be is probably impossible; teaching them to behave in ways that seem unnatural to them at the start is actually not that hard.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Kids

• Yes, I think I am a realist. Because I make what I see. It's only the problem of seeing it. If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space - then you can make it, and tout de suite you're a realist. The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Once you imagine it, you can be realistic about reproducing it.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Up
  • Real
  • Space

• It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

  

  Adrian Cronauer
  • People
  • Sky
  • Blue

• I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Long
  • Small
  • Growing

• Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

  

  Frans Lanting
  • Future
  • Past

• Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

  

  Stockard Channing
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Passionate