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Robert Gottlieb Quotes

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

Robert Gottlieb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 29, 1931

Topics

Me Writing Start Never Decide

On stage and in person, I think I am nice, thoughtful, and empathetic. But for some reason when I'm online, I become super aggressive and unhinged. I should probably get off of Twitter and see a therapist.

I Am Think Thoughtful Person Nice

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

Start Feel Back Go Page Need

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

Time People Society Rest Doing Out

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Problem Emotion Sentimentality

I get so insecure about studio sessions.

Get Studio Insecure About

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Believe Certainty Begin Must

Some actors, they have to carry this macho, very masculine element to them, but it's difficult for me to understand that.

Me Understand Difficult Carry Macho

We know even from ordinary life that we have to achieve a sufficient degree of attentiveness if we want to concentrate on an inner picture or an object of some kind; we must also have it in our power, though, to turn our soul away from something we have been concentrating on.

Life Power Soul Picture Achieve

I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I'd think, when I'm grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted.

Life Father Dance Me Speak Think

I have a big family, and I spend a lot of time with them.

Family Time Big Big Family Spend

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Louise J. Kaplan

Future Struggle Past Wish Powerful

It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

Daily Heart Time Fun Child Language

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