Simon McBurney Quotes

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

Simon McBurney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 25, 1957

Topics

MusicImaginationTheatreYouMatter

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Johann Georg Hamann

ThinkLanguageMisunderstandingOnly

What would we be without the fans? They're more important than me, because they make our sport great; they make things happen. We put on the show, but if people don't react to it, we are nothing. So, the fans, basically we should roll out the red carpet for them.

Jens Voigt

GreatRedPeopleMeThings Happen

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

Max Levchin

WorkBuildingYouLivingProduct

It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunately, more and more people are aware daily of the inequities that arise from things such as the estate tax, and it has come to the forefront of Congress' agenda.

Jeff Miller

DailyPeopleCongressTaxMoreCome

The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena.

Steve Erickson

TechnologyAttentionDarkNewMovies

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Sun Tzu

ExcellenceVictorySeeWithinCommon

The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job's not finished.

Steven Gerrard

JobFansWhereUsFinishedPart

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.

Molly Antopol

LoveEmpathyWorldFeelYouWhere

Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.

Louis Theroux

TelevisionNeverHimUpFoundAbout

When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.

Dolores O'Riordan

LifeMotherRelationshipSoulGrace

Every White House Correspondents' Dinner for the past three years, I have broken my dress and can't even zip it, so we have to leave - that's why I've missed every carpet appearance. One time, we had to go into Virginia to find me a new dress.

Chrissy Teigen

TimePastBrokenDressMeDinner

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

Antonio Banderas

WordsValuePeopleYouLookBad

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