Delbert L. Stapley Quotes

When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.

Delbert L. Stapley

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• Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Looking
  • Price
  • Blindness

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Chance

• I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Said
  • Now

• When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • School
  • Pretty

• There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Giving

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

• American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • American
  • Problems

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Inspiration
  • Actor

• We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • House
  • Small
  • Air

• It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.

  

  Ma Long
  • Privilege
  • Teammates
  • Footsteps

• Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • Weird
  • Test

• Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Father
  • Political

• Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.

  

  Margot Fonteyn
  • Time
  • Great
  • Moments

• The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Experience

• Rock n' roll means so much more to people; it enriches the culture. Also, it inspires people; there's no half-feeling. When I first got into it, I was inspired by people who had come before me, and I found myself in the position of handing that on.

  

  Mick Jones Foreigner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

  

  Claire Bloom
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Soul

• Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Different
  • Children
  • Sorry

• The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Anxiety

• When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.

  

  Delbert L. Stapley
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Talk