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John Lahr Quotes

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

John Lahr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: July 12, 1941

Topics

Time Comedy Audience Inspired Take

I don't like when actors go around and talk a ton about how they approach their roles, because it's a little like pulling the curtain back on Oz, for me.

Jim Parrack

Me Back Go Talk Little Because

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

John Bercow

Past Want Over Crawl Disputes

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Roger Ebert

Life Questions More Human Answers

I train heavy and hard every workout. That's the only way I knew. I know it was the key to my success.

Ronnie Coleman

Success Key Train Know Way Hard

We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is.

Michael Winter

Wife Saying Fish House Down Three

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

Joni Mitchell

Think Go Arts Fine Would Continue

With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock.

Chris Brown

Girl I Am She Open Whatever Date

Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.

Chelsea Clinton

Service World You Prove Way Tell

In school, my biggest fear was that I couldn't produce emotion on cue.

Christian Borle

Fear School Emotion Biggest Produce

I'm not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and 'get real with myself' - come on. I'm already too old, and I'm lucky to have a job at all.

Ariel Pink

Myself Job Back Go Lucky Bedroom

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.

Winslow Homer

Work Hard Work Talent Doing Nothing

I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

Penn Jillette

Family Me Stupid Promises Chance