Charlotte Saunders Cushman Quotes

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

Charlotte Saunders Cushman

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• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Together
  • Teach

• When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Power
  • Powerful

• The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Security

• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • She
  • Mom
  • Sweet

• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Explore

• A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Way
  • Interesting
  • Know

• I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • America
  • Happy
  • Television

• I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

  

  Larry David
  • Night
  • Place
  • Fish

• We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • World
  • Good
  • True

• Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

  

  Randy West
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Simple

• I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Team
  • Like
  • Feel

• I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Free
  • Perfect

• If it's boring, then it's tiring.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Boring
  • Then
  • Tiring

• I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Going
  • Shaking
  • Booty

• Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits - and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Sorry

• I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

  

  Fred Melamed
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Comedy

• At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Time
  • America

• It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Listening
  • Summer
  • Sound

• In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Religion

• No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

  

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Character