Harold Pinter Quotes

I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

Harold Pinter

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• It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Movie
  • Black

• I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Kind
  • Training
  • Yoga

• Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Like
  • Gone
  • Favor

• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.

  

  Rand Paul
  • You
  • Party
  • Win

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Kind
  • Enjoy
  • Suits

• It takes one person to give you a big chance.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • You
  • Chance
  • Big

• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

  Ovid
  • Long
  • Women
  • Like

• I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Women
  • Love
  • Strong

• At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • House
  • Air
  • Old

• I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• 'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!

  

  Maria Canals Barrera
  • People
  • Experience
  • Remember

• Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Technology

• I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Girl
  • Poetry

• I don't move away from grief, rather through it.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Grief
  • Move
  • Rather

• I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain