Bill Jay Quotes

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

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• Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • Live
  • Experience

• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Challenge
  • Childhood
  • Husband

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Great
  • Love
  • Success

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Movie

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mistake
  • Silence
  • Darkness

• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Author
  • Coffee

• My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Game
  • Hand
  • Focus

• I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Painting

• I write what I write.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Write
  • I Write

• I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Fan
  • Seth Rollins

• I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Think
  • Saying

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• There are a lot of critics out there, a lot of people that you want to prove wrong. But that's what your hard work is for in the offseason, spending hours and hours in the gym.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Work
  • Gym

• There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Real
  • Today
  • Drink

• When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Want
  • You
  • Realize

• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Education
  • Learning

• You think it impossible the Convention could have a thought of war with Great Britain, and the conquest of Canada. In this point I differ from you very widely. The conduct of Great Britain, and the conduct of our States, too, was such as to keep up very serious apprehensions between the two powers. The treaty of peace was not fulfilled on either side.

  

  John Adams
  • Up
  • Great
  • War

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Playing
  • Excited
  • Still

• The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • America

• Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Art
  • Successful
  • Considered