Alan Arkin Quotes
I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.Alan Arkin
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
Zoe Kravitz -
My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
Kate Bush -
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
Katee Sackhoff -
Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
Manolo Blahnik
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
Omari Hardwick -
The journey matters as much as the goal.
Kalpana Chawla -
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz -
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
Ad Reinhardt -
I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
Naomi Watts -
You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
Felix Dennis
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The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
Zooey Deschanel -
If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
Laura Dern -
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Eddie Trunk -
I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
Rachel Cusk -
If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
Joanne Rowling
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I have a daughter who has taught me a lot along the way.
Alex Guarnaschelli -
I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?
Jon Fishman -
I've only ever tried to be me.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
Randall Terry -
Film, I think, is my medium.
Pia Zadora -
I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.
Alan Arkin