Famous quotes by Entertainers

"The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible, which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions, but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience, but by rampant curiosity"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"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, Entertainer

"I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do, they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them, so I drop them"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I have to be a star like another man has to breathe"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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