E. M. Forster Quotes
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
Quotes to Explore
-
Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
-
This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
-
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
-
I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
-
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
-
The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
-
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
-
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
-
There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
-
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
-
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
-
Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
-
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
-
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
-
I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
-
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
-
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
-
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
-
I need enough room to eventually throw a baseball with a child; that's all the yard I need. That's all I want.
-
A new report says that last year Colorado collected $44 million in marijuana taxes. Unfortunately, they can't remember where they put it.
-
The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
-
Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.
-
I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to.
-
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
