Carol Channing Quotes
Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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A well begun is half ended.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
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Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring.
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Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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Q: If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here? A: Why do men go to zoos?
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When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life.
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Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
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I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.
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I became a children's author by accident.
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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When Indians have loved and embraced Pakistani artistes, why can't the latter come out in their support when injustice has been meted out to the people? No one wants these artistes to wage a war against their government. People didn't demand that they condemn their own country. They just expected them to say something for the sake of humanity.
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Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.
