Raymond Cruz Quotes

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

Raymond Cruz

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• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Car
  • Sports
  • Driving

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Religious

• I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Twitter
  • Commercial
  • Applications

• As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mind
  • Fight
  • Everything

• One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Time
  • Dance
  • Reaction

• I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some alternative rock. I just write what I feel, so I can't specifically say. I just want to be an artist of truth and an artist that stays true to herself.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Different
  • Country
  • Truth

• Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Bad
  • Today
  • Science

• The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Nice
  • Understanding
  • Grow

• I'm very religious.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Religious
  • Very

• I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Friends
  • High
  • Health

• I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Friends
  • View
  • Sarcastic

• I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Group

• We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Important
  • Today
  • Food

• In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Up
  • Important
  • Technology

• I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

  

  Anne Enright

• I don't know whether they will give me a project just because I am cooperative and behave nicely, but it really helps. I never demand for anything or never throw tantrums at work.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Project
  • Demand

• I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Time
  • Think
  • Perfect

• I am a father, and sometimes I want to stay close to home. By varying the workplace, it gives me space to breathe. I enjoy theatre because it reminds me I'm mortal, and it's terrifying when it goes wrong but the most thrilling experience when it flies.

  

  Colin Salmon
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Father

• I was obsessed with theatre and loving the work of Caryl Churchill, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, and Howard Barker, people doing real formal experimentation. But 'Road' was the first time I'd read a play written in a very true Northern dialect that seemed to have that excitement running through it.

  

  John Tiffany
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

  

  Raymond Cruz
  • Theatre
  • Television
  • Leisure