Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.
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I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
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I said, 'When you are on your deathbed, Erran, pray that you never meet me in the place you are going to.'
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Don't take any shit from anybody!
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I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
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Government has a rightful role, but not an excessive role, to play.
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I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of the time, and changing that language very radically was just a sign or a signal that I was going to try to do something very different. I find that that's what I feel closest to. I found no real inner response in me in a non-tonal language.
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I am devoted to my two children, who are far and away more important to me than anything.
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Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.
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Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
