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

• 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

• One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Faith

• Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Marriage

• If it's a tight division race, there could be some interesting games.

  

  Bob Harlan
  • Games
  • Division

• Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Imagine

• There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation narratives.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Vision

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

  

  Keith Johnstone
  • Imagination
  • Lying
  • Skills