Ayad Akhtar Quotes

I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

Ayad Akhtar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 28, 1970

Topics

FreedomFreeProcessPoliticalOwn

In my life, the sky is literally the ceiling.

Jimmy Graham

LifeSkyMy LifeCeilingLiterally

They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time.

Jim Goad

TimePosingJesus ChristBeingJesus

My father was an architect.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

FatherArchitect

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

John F. Kennedy

JobBetterI CanKnowBigSure

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

Matthew Simpson

LiveMenYouFameTurnMay

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

Andy Murray

SportsSometimesUsedYoungerHelped

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

Amanda Marshall

ManagementBadWhosePerformersLot

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.

Jonathan Miller

WorkFashionThinkResultYouNow

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

Christopher Eccleston

BeforeShakespeareWerePlays

At times, when I reach my saturation point, I go to some random place and throw my phone away.

Arijit Singh

RandomReachPhonePlaceGoPoint

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Annette Funicello

BirthdayWalkPresentFameHollywood

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

FunnyMeYouNiceSayAnything

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