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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people who show up and the value that they hold.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: December 29, 1984

Topics

Value People Theatre Think Anything

Moving and motion tends to make things pop up. But things pop up for me, really, at just odd intervals or at random times that aren't really convenient, so I'm a big fan of the voice memo recorder on my phone. That's the only way I can remember things.

Jim James

Me Moving Random Voice Remember Way

I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got a wheelbarrow, a pick and a shovel, and I started to build a baseball field during writers' strike. We have boys and girls come over and we have clinics in the spring. It's called The Strike because it's named for the writers' strike.

John C. McGinley

Baseball Spring Strike Build Over

I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

John F. Kerry

Would Candidate Rather NAACP Than

I'm not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.

John Cho

Good Been Improvise Failed Really

Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.

Meghan Daum

Culture Think You Person Go Crisis

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions - and Iraq may be one of them - when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

Michael Ignatieff

Live War Believe Reality Human Real

I've had a couple of people come up to me after screenings and say they kind of sympathized with the character. I always get a kick out of it when people say that. It means I did something maybe a little bit to the credit of the character.

Michael Eklund

Character People Me Credit Say Kind

What I do for a living means that people look at me. As an actress, you are scrutinized. You are not just dealing with your looks privately, you are on display. I have never been 100 percent comfortable in my own skin. I go through different phases. But I don't feel beautiful all the time, no.

Sophia Myles

Beautiful Time People Me You Look

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

Robert E. Lee

Good War Grow Horrible Might Like

I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I played trombone in the marching band. I remember especially enjoying two seasonal activities: ice skating with the Houston Figure Skating Club in the winter and visiting an aunt and uncle's farm in West Texas in the summer.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Winter School High School Texas Farm

I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.

Masashi Kishimoto

Me Think Artists Been Knew Accepted

Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too.

Micky Dolenz

Memories People Remember Many Fond