Richie Havens (Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens) Quotes

I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

Richie Havens

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• When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Up
  • You
  • Try

• One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Up
  • Character
  • Night

• I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Up
  • Never
  • Try

• The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • More

• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Wish
  • Try

• You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
  • Try
  • Either

• I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Fall
  • Moment
  • Try

• I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Try
  • Modest
  • Frivolous

• I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Morning
  • Try
  • Twitter

• My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • She
  • Wife

• It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Day

• I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Done
  • Respect

• I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Try
  • Comfortable
  • Luxury

• I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Try
  • Preparation
  • Beyond

• What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Live
  • Try

• When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Insomnia

• Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Night

• Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • People
  • Live
  • Nature

• I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Christ
  • Pure Bread

• To be around me, you must love food, or I'm the most obnoxious person you've ever met.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Food

• I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Work
  • Music
  • Country

• I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

  

  Richie Havens
  • Sleep
  • Try
  • I Remember