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'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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The thing is this: I've got an amazing career in England that couldn't possibly get much better. I do the best theater around, I work at the National Theater, the Old Vic - which I'm sure you've heard of because it's the one Kevin Spacey runs - and I play the most amazing roles and work with the most amazing directors.
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That's the great thing about a series: you're driving to work, and you have an idea for a story for your characters, and you can go into work, and it's gonna be a television show. I mean that's what's great about the job.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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You play shows all over the country and hope that radio gets a chance to get out to see you, but that doesn't always happen like that.
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I've always been very cautious with what I do. You know, that started at a young age. I always had the approach or the mentality I never wanted to embarrass my parents.
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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.
