Focus Theatre Quotes & Sayings

Efficiency was a higher priority than imagination. — Adam Christopher

The problem with so much religious communication is that it aims at changing our minds. The result is that we can hear the message of the preacher without necessarily heeding the message; we can listen to the "truth" and agree with it, yet not change in response to it. — Peter Rollins

I want my name to mean me. — Mark Haddon

Substitution is a true test of strength. The real performance of a player is seen not only during playing time but also and more especially when the player is substituted. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost. — James Carver

You don't get paid a whole lot for theatre, but you know, I feel more like, 'Where could I buy this experience, and how much would it cost? Who else would give me this kind of focus and put me in a room with this kind of talent?' — Dennis Christopher

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn. — Dan Millman

When people really understand it's do or die [and] if we work hard and pull through, it's going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they've got. — Elon Musk

And I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again. — Philip Roth

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent. — Alan Rickman

No one was ever scolded out of their sins. — William Cowper

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline. — Viggo Mortensen

Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them? — Marjorie Dannenfelser

I wanted to tell her she was beautiful, but it almost seemed like saying that to her would be diminishing it. You don't reassure a rainbow it's colourful, or a star that it shines. Sometimes, not saying something says more than anything else. — Nina G. Jones

When God
wishes to help,
he lets us weep.
Wherever water flows,
life flourishes,
wherever tears fall
divine mercy is shown. — Rumi

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. — William S. Burroughs

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny sefishness and their virile indifference! You would begin to be interested in them, because they are not interested in you. You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theatre in which your own little plot is always played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky, in a street full of splendid strangers. — G.K. Chesterton

When unspeakable violence is enacted upon innocents, say, in a school or movie theatre, and the survivors and the families of the victims, in the throes of pain and anguish, want to ask, "Why did this happen?," "How did this happen?," and "What can we do to prevent this from happening again?," and one of the areas they (still we) focus their scrutiny is that of the highly efficient weapons of warfare that are casually available to us citizens of the United States, then we frightened gun owners have the chance to be human and say, "Okay, this is a horrible tragedy. Let's open up a conversation here." Instead, I'm surmising, out of fear, we throw up our defenses and behave in a very confrontational way toward such a conversation , citing the Second Amendment as the ultimate protection of our rights, no matter how ridiculously murderous the firearm, which, unfortunately, makes us look like dicks. — Nick Offerman

The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year. — Amanda Hale

Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond. — Sam Mendes

The fight in theatre is focus, focus, focus. — Judy Gold

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre. — Sarah Brightman