John Lahr Quotes

Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.

John Lahr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

KnowledgeTrustPeopleTheatreLook

Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except 'Cry Baby.'

John Waters

BabyMomRememberTroubleCryWorst

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

Amanda Harlech

GoodWifeI AmGoGood WifeMy Own

You need to have a very strong relationship with your coaches. For me, Freddie Roach is like a father figure.

Amir Khan

FatherRelationshipMeStrongYou

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

Tony Hillerman

HomePeopleMeKnowSittingRight

I spend a lot of time wondering how to best support the people that I love, because I think sometimes that means getting out of the way. When should I leave them alone to have their own life?

Jason Isbell

LifeLoveAloneTimeBestSupport

Officiating is trying to do your absolute best with what you've got.

Doug Harvey

BestTryingYouGotYourAbsolute

Mothers subject their daughters to a level of scrutiny people usually reserve for themselves. A mother's gaze is like a magnifying glass held between the sun's rays and kindling. It concentrates the rays of imperfection on her daughter's yearning for approval. The result can be a conflagration - whoosh.

Deborah Tannen

MotherDaughterSunPeopleResult

Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.

Claire Denis

FeelSometimesI Feel LikeLikeJohn

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

Aloe Blacc

LoveCommunityPeopleStrangersNow

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

NatureLoveManPleasureOwnFaults

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.

Rickie Lee Jones

EmotionalDestroyedLevelsEasily

'Deadpool' is massively successful because they made a very unique movie. That uniqueness and originality, try to imitate that. Not, 'How about let's try to do 'Deadpool' on a train.'

Lexi Alexander

UniqueTrainUniquenessTryBecause

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