Kenneth Cranham Quotes
The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think there's no greater healing power than music.
-
Power is the by-product of understanding.
-
If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
-
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
-
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
-
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
-
Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
-
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
-
Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
-
You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
-
My customers are successful workingwomen.
-
I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
-
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
-
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
-
In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
-
It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
-
I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
-
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
-
I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
-
When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.
-
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
-
The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people who think that the world and their duties in it are clear and simple. They are certain that they know what - who - created the universe and what this creator wants them to do to make our little speck in the universe perfect, even if extreme measures - even violence - are required.
-
The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.
