R. Lee Ermey Quotes
Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
R. Lee Ermey
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
Canelo Alvarez
I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
Imtiaz Ali
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
Valorie Curry
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Ram Dass
I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
Rafael dos Anjos
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?
Eugene Delacroix
No, I don't believe we've ever designed a character around a person. Usually, we start out with a kind of personality.
Jim Henson
If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.
Lincoln Kirstein
The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.
Thomas Carlyle
In our time photojournalists were as important as the writers. Today not so. Photojournalism is diminishing. Now everyone is a free artist, which can only be in photography. For he is taking pictures! Releases the shutter and becomes an artist. Godsend people they are, otherwise the world was doomed. They are so significant. I fear bumping into one of these celebrities walking in the street, which would be very disrespectful indeed.
Ara Guler
Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
R. Lee Ermey