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.
Quotes to Explore
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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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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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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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 know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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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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You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
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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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I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
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Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?
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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.
