“I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 192 of 303
“As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.”
“Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.”
“Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.”
“As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.”
“When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.”
“In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.”
“Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.”
“Maybe I think too much for my own good.”
“It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.”
“It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.”
“Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.”
“I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.”
“I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.”
“There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.”
“It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.”
“In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.”
“Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.”
“I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.”
“It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.”