Gene Saks Quotes

For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it's the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you.

Gene Saks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 8, 1921 - March 28, 2015

Topics

LifeReflectionMeYouLosePlay

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

Andrea Barrett

MeInterestingNothingWriteExcept

Lynne Ramsay's 'Ratcatcher' blew me away when it came out. When I started making short films, I would watch that film over and over again, marvelling at how that story visually unfolded.

Andrew Haigh

MeStoryShortOverOutStarted

My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

Steve Carell

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When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

Simon Van Booy

YourselfSpaceLandscapeYouNeed

We saw how a lot of companies charge upwards of $1500 for a basic LSAT course, and we all thought that is simply way too much, even if the instruction was good.

Ron DeSantis

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Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

Mickey Mantle

LifeBaseballFunNothingWellBeen

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Denzel Washington

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While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.

Douglas Wood

HomeLiveParentsSisterChicago

I have never, ever slept through my child crying unless I have had a sleeping tablet; and I only take a sleeping tablet when I know Steve, my husband, is on duty. We take turns: he does one night, I do the next.

Deirdre O'Kane

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One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

Branford Marsalis

GreatListeningLovedMusiciansBand

I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

Aretha Franklin

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When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.

Willie Geist

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