Charles Keating Quotes

Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.

Charles Keating

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 4, 1923 - March 31, 2014

Topics

SimpleWeekPlayActorDirector

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Jim Lovell

SuccessPeopleYouWonderPerson

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Jim Palmer

FailureBestLosingYouYourGiven

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

Joel Sternfeld

RespectHimEvenBurnedPhotographs

My criteria when looking for a role is that I will do anything that stands the chance of succeeding on the level it is intended to. After that, if it's a part I can do something personal with.

John Hurt

LookingChanceI CanPersonalWill

Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.

MF Doom

TogetherWordsFunOutDifferent

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

John Singer Sargent

HandMineHornyToil

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

Steven Pinker

WordsYourselfPeopleTreatNegative

It is important for me to feel like myself on a red carpet - not the way somebody else thinks I should look.

Tracee Ellis Ross

MyselfRedMeFeelLookImportant

Music for me is a bit more spiritual. There are moments when I'm sitting at my piano, and I don't realize that I've been playing for two hours - it feels like divine power. I know it's so cheesy.

Mary Lambert

MusicPowerSpiritualMeMoments

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

Liz Phair

MyselfYourselfI AmBe YourselfYou

We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

Dick Cheney

WillFactIn Fact

My father's not the type of person that teaches you by saying, 'Come here, son. I'm going to tell you about real estate.' You learn by watching it. If you don't pick it up, it's your problem.

Donald Trump, Jr.

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