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.

Carol Channing

• Character
• Listening
• Theatre
• Tennis
• Communicate

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• People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Think
  • Look

• I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Kind
  • Morality
  • Mortality

• 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.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Style
  • Myself
  • Finish

• I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Kids
  • Always

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Money
  • Food
  • Know

• 'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.

  

  Flume
  • First
  • Really
  • Sleepless

• A well begun is half ended.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Half
  • Well
  • Ended

• I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Dream
  • Black

• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • True
  • Patriotism
  • Rebellion

• Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Job
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Want
  • Feel

• I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Want
  • Sexy

• Love is a kind of warfare.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Kind
  • For Her

• 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.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Right
  • Wrong

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Matter

• 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.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Music
  • God
  • Country

• I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.

  

  Tuppence Middleton
  • Time
  • School
  • Funny

• This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Process
  • Alchemy
  • Smith

• I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

  

  Mariel Hemingway
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Spiritual

• Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Carol Channing
  • Character
  • Listening
  • Theatre