William Shakespeare Quotes

You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite Uma.

I think the audience likes to be entertained.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks - it seemed more than I could bear to see her go. Francis was around the corner, buying her a book to read on the train. 'I don't want you to leave,' I said. 'I don't want to, either.' 'Then don't.' 'I have to.' We stood looking at each other. It was raining. She looked at me with her rain-colored eyes. Camilla, I love you,' I said. 'Let's get married.

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

'One Night Only,' the words I'll be hearing from my agents when I tell them I'm coming back to Broadway.

I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up

I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

What is life but playing with time?

I love being backstage, or doing littler things like Blame Canada.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that the two run around together. The nature of a songwriter could be philosophical. Looking for universal ideas, a way to say things, get the story across as a means of entertaining, provoking thought.

That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

Empire of Deception is a sure thing--a book guaranteed to entertain and make you rich (in knowledge, that is). Dean Jobb has found a fascinating yet little-known jazz-age tale and told it with style and smarts. Get in on the action.

Ladies and gentlemen, Otis Alexander Sudeikis has LEFT the building! (I'm the building)

The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street.

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.

I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.

The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.