Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• Depth
• Longevity

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• It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Artist

• What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Better
  • Fat
  • Cats

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Laugh

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Act
  • Curiosity
  • Analysis

• You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • You
  • Times
  • Become

• A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Long
  • True
  • Words

• I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Thought

• I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Where liberty dies, evil grows.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Evil
  • Liberty
  • Where

• I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Black
  • You
  • Wish

• When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Think

• Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

  

  Adam Pally
  • You
  • Story
  • Budget

• I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives me insane.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Thought
  • Insane
  • Literally

• If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Work
  • Vision
  • End

• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Star
  • Write

• The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Moon

• You hate to think one of those kids is not going to get a trophy for Player of the Year. There are numerous awards, and ideally they would split them. If Morrison doesn't get a Player of the Year award, I'll buy him a gold trophy, call it the Dickie V. P-T-Per Award and ship it out to him myself.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Kids
  • Hate
  • Player

• I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Gains
  • I Believe In
  • Extent

• When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Experience

• You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • View

• There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Depth