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
  • Myself
  • Style
  • 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

• I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Things
  • Working
  • Once

• 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

• At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

  

  John Carmack
  • Game
  • Random
  • Petty

• When I committed to playing a little tennis in some exhibitions, it was the best thing for me. It got me in shape. It got me out of the house. It got me doing something I love to do.

  

  Pete Sampras
  • House
  • Tennis

• Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Power
  • Prayer
  • Incredibles

• If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

  

  Bridget Moynahan
  • Family
  • Father
  • Support

• I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Never
  • Working
  • Year

• 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