Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

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• I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Style
  • Like
  • Excellent

• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Dad

• I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career

• I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Couple

• They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Truth
  • Mean
  • Name

• I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.

  

  Oleg Kulik
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Fall
  • Creative
  • Rain

• Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Kind
  • Leaving
  • Personal

• I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Work
  • Wanted
  • Kate

• I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • New York
  • Wednesday
  • Puzzle

• At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Want
  • Support
  • Loyalty

• See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Power
  • Truth

• Oh, I've got news for youBaby, that I've made plans for twoI guess I'm just a stubborn kind of fellowGot my mind made up to love you.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Up
  • Mind

• Me es más fácil ver todas las cosas como una cosa sola, que ver una cosa como una cosa sola.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

  

  C.P. Snow
  • Civilization
  • Horror
  • Coats

• Our choice, it seems, is whether we will let our past and present sufferings be sufficient to soften and break us, or whether we will resist and harden ourselves so even more suffering is required.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Choice
  • Sufferings

• When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

  

  Epictetus
  • God
  • Remember
  • Light

• My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.

  

  Leon Uris
  • People
  • Scene
  • Accomplishment

• If you haven't experienced it, it's not true.

  

  Kabir
  • True
  • Ifs
  • Havens

• A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith