Walter Kerr Quotes
He wove a great web of knowledge, linking everything together, and sat modestly at a switchboard at the center, eager to help.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was unbelievably lucky.
-
I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
-
I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
-
I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
-
It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
-
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
-
I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
-
There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
-
Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
-
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
-
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
-
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
-
I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.
-
Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
-
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
-
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
-
Certain struggles never end.
-
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
-
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.
-
I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can't actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just knew that I had too many feelings and I had to kind of get them out in some way.
-
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
-
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
-
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
-
He wove a great web of knowledge, linking everything together, and sat modestly at a switchboard at the center, eager to help.
