Shirley Booth Quotes

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

Shirley Booth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 20, 1907 - October 16, 1992

Topics

WaitEnoughLongFindPlayAudience

I don't think I should ask my kids to inherit my business, because they can't start where I did: I was from the street. I'm a very different make of person. I've been a fighter all my life.

Jimmy Lai

LifeBusinessStartThinkMy Life

Secure the border; have an ID system that works. Have a guest worker system. And then, finally, hold businesses accountable. Once you do that, most of the chambers of commerce and those who are clamoring around immigration will take a deep breath and relax.

John Hickenlooper

RelaxBorderDeepImmigrationYou

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

Anita Roddick

LifeFreedomBalanceYouCreateWay

With pencil, you can always erase.

Sue Monk Kidd

YouAlwaysPencilErase

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams.

Sloane Stephens

BestPlayWantTennisGrand

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Tori Amos

DrivenInvolvedIdeaLikeForm

It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.

Mike D

FashionYouHouseDoneNeverBeen

It turns out that viruses evolve from each other, like everything else. So if you look at the evolutionary tree of viruses, you can find parts of their genome that haven't changed over evolutionary time. You can recognize what may be a new virus by identifying this little piece of their genome that hasn't changed and is represented on the chip.

Joseph DeRisi

TimeTreeYouLookFindNew

From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.

Colin Morgan

GoodWhyLegendsHimEveryoneBig

I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.

Antonio Banderas

MorningTeaYouthWhiteSilverWeb

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.

Avi

PatienceTimeDayMeWritingBook

I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.

Alfred Molina

ThinkProblemHollywoodBritishOnly

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