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

• 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

• 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

• As soon as you get traded, you kind of start thinking where you're going to live, your family, you have to pack.

  

  Marco Scutaro
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Family

• We want more opportunities for women's players throughout the world.

  

  Christen Press
  • World
  • Women

• I'm afraid of flying.

  

  Allison Janney
  • Flying

• Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them.

  

  Anthea Turner
  • Important
  • Summer
  • Winter

• The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Job

• No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Soul
  • Christian
  • Egoism

• A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Men
  • Success

• Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.

  

  Lee Hall
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• The first principle of all action is leisure.

  

  Aristotle
  • Action
  • Principle
  • Leisure

• 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