Tony Kushner Quotes
A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.
Quotes to Explore
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
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You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
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We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we are not qualified. For Believers, we must only engage in activities for which the Lord has called us.
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I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
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I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.
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A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.
