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've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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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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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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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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Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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I'd love to be able to draw or play guitar or dance. All three at the same time - that's the talent for me.
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In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.
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Being a man repeller becomes a process of elimination. If a guy is only really into your outfit and won't date you because of what you're wearing, they are too driven by the female exterior and don't care about your intellect.
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Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.
