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"When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today"
Jimmy Rushing, Musician
"Entertainment and art are not isolated"
Martin Kippenberger, Artist
"Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all"
Martin Kippenberger, Artist
"There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself"
Doris Humphrey, Dancer
"The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important"
David Elliott, Celebrity
"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius"
Joshua Reynolds, Artist
"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul"
Annette Bening, Actress
"I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas"
Martha Stewart, Entertainer
"There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company"
Graeme Murphy, Dancer
"Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater"
Graeme Murphy, Dancer
"I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads"
Graeme Murphy, Dancer
"I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them"
Graeme Murphy, Dancer
"My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics"
William Kempe, Actor
"The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states"
Tracey Ullman, Comedian
"I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin"
Tracey Ullman, Comedian
"As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs"
Sam Abell, Photographer
"I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love"
Robert Frank, Photographer
"I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either"
Nigel Kneale, Writer
"When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work"
Mandy Patinkin, Actor
"I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life"
Mandy Patinkin, Actor
"But I loved the theatre, and I was just doing theatre 24/7, and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time, and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile"
Mandy Patinkin, Actor
"Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality"
Jim Hodges, Politician
"We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves"
Glenn Close, Actress
"We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement"
Gilbert Hernandez, Artist
"My two biggest influences are Archie Comics and Dennis the Menace"
Gilbert Hernandez, Artist
"Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly"
Eduard Hanslick, Writer
"I love the theatre and theatre people"
Cyril Cusack, Actor
"A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art"
Richard Ernst, Scientist
"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything"
William H. Macy, Actor
"I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies"
William H. Macy, Actor
"Immature artists imitate; mature artists steal"
Lionel Trilling, Critic
"Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role"
Joshua Leonard, Actor
"As a painter, you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary"
Sylvia Kristel, Actress
"Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked"
Rachel Dratch, Comedian
"Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat"
Harry Houdini, Entertainer
"Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper"
Gunter Grass, Author
"Art should offend people because art should challenge people"
Eriq La Salle, Actor
"Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice"
Phil Lesh, Musician
"When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance"
Peggy Fleming, Athlete
"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on"
William Devane, Actor
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