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Clarke Peters Quotes

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Clarke Peters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1952

Topics

Story You Look Back Want Actor

I grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic musicals of that golden era, The sort of more modern musical theater, or what was modern when I was at a ripe teenage age, I wasn't really listening to that stuff. I was really more raised on the classics.

Jessie Mueller

Music Age Man Listening Lady Golden

I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!'

Anna Chlumsky

Life Path College Year Down Want

I've written a very long piece of music recently, the 'Veil of the Temple,' which lasts about seven hours. It's really a kind of vigil. It takes place during the night, waiting for the resurrection of Christ.

John Tavener

Music Waiting Night Long Place Kind

Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning.

John Walters

Beginning Dinner Night Become Out

I have my own favorites; right now it's 'Simple Man,' but that changes from time to time.

Johnny Colt

Time Simple Man Now My Own Changes

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

Robyn Hitchcock

Change Process Right Everyone Whole

We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.

Maryanne Wolf

Past Limits Thought Lose Fools Go

I have lived difficult moments, but it's in times like those that you learn the most.

Michy Batshuayi

Learn Moments You Difficult Lived

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

Louis C. K.

Live Curious People Suffering Evil

I like many things in English football - everyone lives and breathes it here. Of course, that doesn't mean I don't like Spanish football.

Julen Lopetegui

Football Mean Everyone Things Here

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

Judith Rossner

Work Writing Interesting More Real

Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records.

Dianne Reeves

Knowledge People World Enlightenment