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"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays"
Jeffrey Jones, Actor
"I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made"
Robbie Coltrane, Actor
"At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them"
Mort Walker, Artist
"Yes, I mean, there's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over"
Michael C. Hall, Actor
"I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence"
Man Ray, Photographer
"After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration"
Tracy Chapman, Musician
"You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor"
Mark Rylance, Actor
"It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play"
Mark Rylance, Actor
"I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist"
Suzy Bogguss, Musician
"The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17"
Sarah Silverman, Comedian
"Stage performing is a dying art form"
Ronnie Spector, Musician
"Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage"
Raul Julia, Actor
"It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly"
Michael Musto, Writer
"In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this"
Henry Flynt, Artist
"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book"
Laurence Olivier, Actor
"When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really"
Jude Law, Actor
"There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug"
Edouard Manet, Artist
"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another"
Edouard Manet, Artist
"Black is not a color"
Edouard Manet, Artist
"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real"
David Antin, Poet
"Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it"
Stanley Tucci, Actor
"I think probably the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along"
Andrea Martin, Actor
"If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial"
Allan Carr, Director
"Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death"
Leonard Baskin, Artist
"People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued"
Lee Krasner, Artist
"My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway"
Lee Krasner, Artist
"In the late '30s, the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of"
Lee Krasner, Artist
"The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open, and in essence that's what it's all about"
Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist
"I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals"
Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist
"Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line"
Chrissie Hynde, Musician
"And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical"
Victor Garber, Actor
"There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out"
Rooney Mara, Actress
"Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people, not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it"
Patrick Marber, Writer
"To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives"
Debra Messing, Actress
"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information"
Man Ray, Photographer
"I probably had some impact because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art"
Liz Phair, Musician
"It evolved out of the idea to make a kids' TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really"
Dave Rowntree, Musician
"The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures"
Nina Blackwood, Celebrity
"It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs"
Jane Alexander, Actress
"I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions"
Jeremy Northam, Actor
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