John Cassavetes Quotes

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

John Cassavetes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 9, 1929 - February 3, 1989

Topics

FeelArtistDareTryThingsFail

When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.

Melissa Etheridge

CareTake CareYouBodySpiritTake

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Maya Angelou

WordsVoiceMeaningDownMeanHuman

The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

Matt Taibbi

PeopleDemocracyWorldFreeDeep

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

Angelina Jolie

GoodStartGrowLearnActorBecause

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

LoveChallengeVillainThinkKind

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

Stephen Frears

GoRightGetJustLikeTakes

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

Tony Campolo

NatureGodSupportDesignWhyProve

Say a piece of pottery is broken, and it's fixed, and they use gold in the adhesive and in the sealant. It becomes more precious than it was before it was broken in the first place.

Rose McIver

BrokenGoldPlaceSayMoreFirst

The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.

Michelle Rodriguez

WomenCultureEmbraceMoreStarting

I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.

Michael K. Williams

GangsterKnowNothing

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

Lorna Luft

MotherPowerSheOverExtraordinary

I really do believe in succession building and giving people experience for future leadership.

Lois Frankel

LeadershipFutureExperiencePeople

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