Gift Theatre Quotes & Sayings

If you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room. — T.D. Jakes

Some people don't want to take time to differentiate between what is mystical and the truth; and what is cultural and biblical. Don't be lazy! — Assegid Habtewold

My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim. — Maya Soetoro-Ng

Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre that moves an audience. You have the opportunity to literally impact the lives of people if they work on material that has integrity. But today, most actors simply want to be famous. Well, being an actor was never supposed to be about fame and money. Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition. — Sanford Meisner

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. — Thomas Pynchon

The only deadline is the one I give myself. — Mark Thomas

London has this culture of the theatre that is so big, it was a like a dream - but I never had a thought to be able to play here because my English was not very good. So being given the opportunity to come work here was like a gift. — Elena Roger

Mystery has great charms for womanhood. — Walter Scott

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist. — Richard Flanagan

Give yourself to the images which are, in fact, already there. — Meinrad Craighead

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too. — David Alan Basche

People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I answer that it is not clever at all. It is the gift of looking at oneself coolly, of calculating the future objectively. I could see the danger signals as far as ballet was concerned before anyone else did, that's all. — Robert Helpmann

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language. — Angelina Jolie

I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place. — Kacey Musgraves

Far from being a magic nostrum, true love, so-called, was a lingering illness, a clash of cold steel, a take no-prisoners war between Venus and Mars. — Nina Mason

May God bequeath everyone the gift of listening to the voice of their conscience! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Compassion for oneself requires a willingness to step OUTside your own story and see it with loving eyes; the courage to recognize truth and follow new leads; the wish for your own heart to heal and the intention to add a vibrant rhythm to enhance the greater dance around you as you begin to join in. — Laurie Perez