Keith Johnstone Quotes

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.

Keith Johnstone

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• I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Know
  • Born
  • Died

• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Never
  • Look

• Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • She
  • Play
  • Acting

• If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Fast

• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Play
  • Knew
  • Villain

• I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Light
  • Wife
  • Breakfast

• Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Child

• I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Why
  • Fun

• The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Know
  • Find
  • Library

• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • True
  • Fun

• I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Think
  • Actor
  • FBI

• Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Fear
  • Hurt
  • Desert

• The way the law is written, people who are under 250 percent of poverty, who have a marketplace plan, also are eligible to have some of their deductible and co-pay expenses paid through cost-sharing. Insurance companies basically front the money and are reimbursed by the federal government, by HHS.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • People
  • Money
  • Law

• In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.

  

  Edwin Moses
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.

  

  Billy Collins

• If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.

  

  Adam West

• I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

  

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Fall

• I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Reservation

• I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio play and you're driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven't seen the road in five minutes. It's because your visual cortex has been partying with your imagination, basically.

  

  Brenda Laurel
  • Business
  • Game
  • Imagination

• Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing.... Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.

  

  Saadat Hasan Manto
  • God
  • Writing
  • Art

• Think about the number of times someone will say to herself, "I want to get out of this circumstance, but I'm too afraid. I'll lie about how happy I am in this marriage, and I'll put up a front." But she's betraying everything that's in her heart. She's making choices that are harming her, and that's why she's hurting. Her intuition is trying to tell her that.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Lying

• The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.

  

  Keith Johnstone
  • Imagination
  • Lying
  • Skills