Arthur Penn Quotes

I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.

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• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
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• To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

  

  Damon Hill
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  • Cold
  • Late

• There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Character
  • Change
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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Country

• You can't get emotional about your work.

  

  Yolandi Visser
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  • You
  • Emotional

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• But in action, one defies one's character.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Character
  • Action

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Done
  • Character
  • Past

• Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Place
  • Dead

• I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Choices

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Sex

• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Home
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  • Book

• The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.

  

  Lady Gaga
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  • Long
  • Family

• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes into people's minds and that's the only place that it ever exists. And it never exists truly; it only exists in the way that people think they remember it. But it's a really powerful way to tell a story and to pass something on.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • People
  • Remember
  • Powerful

• When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Rain

• I believe if you can have an open dialogue about anything, whether it's a book or a movie or TV show, it's this door that suddenly opens your mind to new ideas.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Book

• I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

  

  Jeff Mangum
  • World
  • Different
  • Universe

• I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.

  

  Arthur Penn
  • Work
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  • Character