Simon McBurney Quotes

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

Simon McBurney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GodTimeTheatreRealityYouCreate

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

Joaquin Phoenix

TimePurposeYouMoviesSeeMany

It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.

Robert Harris

CharacterPowerMomentPeopleEnd

People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.

Andy Serkis

CharacterTimePeopleMeVoiceYou

I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.

Merrill Markoe

WorkPeopleThinkEarlyOutI Think

I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress.

John Podesta

FaithNew YorkPeopleThinkJudge

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

Cheyenne Jackson

HomeDressingAwaySecondTheater

When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.

Chiara Ferragni

LifeSuccessEndDoingYouWant

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

Christine Baranski

LearnEnjoyMoreFilm

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Sylvia Plath

MindControlIntelligentInformed

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

Tim Meadows

LifePeopleMeDivorcePersonal

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

Richard Dawkins

ThinkYouSaidTrueAnything

Walking around the streets with our dog is what we did all the time in Washington. Making friends with new people is something we did a lot in Washington. Traveling overseas is something that my wife Robyn and I really enjoyed together. This is really who we are.

Mark Lippert

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