Kelsey Chow Quotes
Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.
Quotes to Explore
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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I write novels and other things.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I kind of have the most amazing fans ever. They are the most committed, passionate people, and I love them so much.
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My ignorance is widespread.
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Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
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If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.
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Do you know that ages will pass and mankind will proclaim in its wisdom and science that there is no crime and, therefore no sin, but that there are only hungry people. 'Feed them first and then demand virtue of them!' - that is what they will inscribe on their banner which they will raise against you and which will destroy your temple.
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Sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.
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As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.
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If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
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Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.
