Algernon Blackwood Quotes
My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.Algernon Blackwood
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I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
Rachel Tucker -
There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
Felicity Jones -
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
Xavier Becerra -
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
Frances McDormand
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Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
Mal Peet -
I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
Malachy McCourt -
I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.
Gail O'Grady -
Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.
Nathan Kress -
I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.
Rachel McAdams
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I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
Orla Brady -
My son Gautham usually doesn't watch my films. But he watched 'Srimanthudu' in the theatre.
Mahesh Babu -
If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
Dan Rather -
My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.
Yul Vazquez -
I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that you can do all that - in New York and L.A., there's more of a structure for film in L.A. and theatre in New York. In London, our industry is smaller, but it produces brilliant work all in one place.
Samuel Barnett -
I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
Radha Mitchell
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The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.
Harold Pinter -
Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.
David Bryan Bon Jovi -
Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas -
The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.
Johnnie Cochran -
There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work.
Jeffrey Gitomer -
My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.
Algernon Blackwood