top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."
Standard
Customized
More
"A career in the theatre demands so much commitment."
Career
"It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you."
Feelings
"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."
Act
"There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top."
Talent
"We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved."
Museums
"The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it."
Boss
"I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling."
Funny
"You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure."
Success
"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."
Comedy
"Good acting is consistency of performance."
Consistency
More
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right."
Author Name
Personal Development
"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page