Edith Evans Quotes

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

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• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Like
  • Trouble

• There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Die

• I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Single
  • Hair
  • Never

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Today
  • King

• My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • Stay
  • Valleys

• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Positive

• Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • World
  • Country
  • Age

• The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Family
  • Words

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Up
  • School
  • Comedy

• I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Security
  • Jeans
  • Followed

• The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Real
  • American
  • History

• There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.

  

  Jeremy Sisto
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Years and years ago, I was obsessed with these Pamela Love necklaces, and they had a claw, like an eagle claw, which was silver. Then I found one on this random website. I thought it was a fake claw, and when it arrived, it was a real one, cut off from the animal! It came to my house, and it was disgusting; it was a chicken claw or something.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Real
  • House
  • Animal

• I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Giving
  • Technology
  • Personality

• I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • God
  • Present
  • Color

• We recognize that tuition over time has increased pretty significantly.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Tuition

• If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Real