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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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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Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.
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Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.
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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
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I tend to notice work.
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We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.
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I'd say the best way to train someone is to remember that you have two ears and one mouth, and use them in that ratio. That's hard to do, and ultimately what we've learned is how many false positives you get from listening to what someone says they're going to do instead of observing what they actually do.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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.
