Quotes & Sayings About Sher

I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up. — Eden Sher

A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion. — Barbara Sher

The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs. — Sher Valenzuela

How can families harm us when they love us? Very easily, unfortunately. Most of us overlook one important fact when we think love is enough: Love and respect aren't the same thing.
Love is fusion. As a baby, you belong to your parents, you're extension of them.
Respect is differentiation: you belong to yourself, and you're an extension of no one.
Differentiation is essential for happiness of adults. — Barbara Sher

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long. — Eden Sher

I relate to what Gov. Romney brings. I know what it means to balance a budget. I know what it means to write a paycheck and not only cash one. I know what it means to create a job, and I know what it means to struggle with my business every day in terms of keeping our doors open any day but definitely in a difficult economy. — Sher Valenzuela

In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them. — Barbara Sher

Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions. — Antony Sher

You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you — Barbara Sher

Did you know that on one of the islands of Orkney, in the North of Scotland, there are some runes that when translated turned out to be Viking graffiti? Eight feet up a wall it says "A tall Viking wrote this." You gotta love that. — Barbara Sher

I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it. — Antony Sher

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another. — Antony Sher

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. — Barbara Sher

And our dreams are who we are. — Barbara Sher

The cure for sorrow is to learn something. — Barbara Sher

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. — Antony Sher

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know. — Eden Sher

I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst! — Eden Sher

You don't have to get it right the first time. — Barbara Sher

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death. — Antony Sher

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem. — Barbara Sher

Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore. — Barbara Sher

I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true. — Antony Sher

Michael Caine should have the last word on the reviews: 'What about those reviews then?'
'I don't read them.'
'Don't read them? You wrote them didn't you? — Antony Sher

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. — Barbara Sher

Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up. — Barbara Sher

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine. — Barbara Sher

You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth. — Barbara Sher

The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.' — Bartlett Sher

When they reached her she stood on the path holding a pair of moths. Her eyes were wide with excitement , her cheeks pink, her red lips parted, and on the hand she held out to them clung a pair of delicate blue-green moths, with white bodies, and touches of lavender and straw colour. All about her lay flower-brocaded grasses, behind a deep green background of the forest, while the sun slowly sifted gold from heaven to burnish her hair. Mrs. Comstock heard a sharp breath behind her.
Oh, what a picture!" Exulted Ammon over sher shoulder. "She is absolutely and altogether lovely! Id give a small fortune for that faithfully set on canvas! — Gene Stratton-Porter

I've been quoting the book [on Peter Sutcliffe] constantly in rehearsals. Some members of the cast have stated their disapproval that it should even have been written. Some of the women have expressed more - disgust and anger. What are they saying? They'd prefer not to know, not to understand? They'd prefer certain areas of life to be censored? Isn't that partly what breeds the Sutcliffes and the Nilsens? — Antony Sher

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress. — Bartlett Sher

Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters
or you're just fooling around. — Barbara Sher

Before last night, the most action I had gotten was from a down pillow. — Abby Sher

Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously. — Barbara Sher

The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible. — Barbara Sher

About things you merely like? Would you rather learn how to plant a garden, work with friends to paint a house, or just have a great day with — Barbara Sher

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love. — Barbara Sher

Bitterness isn't as authentic as it looks. Believe it or not, one of the reasons we choose to feel bitter is because it's easier than feeling pain. It makes us feel tough. Being bitter gives the illusion that you're fighting, that you're not taking defeat lying down. But bitterness is a log jam. It won't let you get moving. — Barbara Sher

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners. — Barbara Sher

Isolation is the dream killer. — Barbara Sher

In order to secure our unlimited future, we need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise. — Sher Valenzuela

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise. — Antony Sher

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well. — Antony Sher

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African. — Antony Sher

Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it. — Barbara Sher

I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it. — Eden Sher

Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. — Barbara Sher

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. — Barbara Sher

Find out what you love.
Do it because you love it.
Stick with it.
Start now. — Barbara Sher

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. — Barbara Sher

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. — Barbara Sher

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes. — Barbara Sher

Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything. — Gail Sher

Irreverence is a declaration of independence. — Barbara Sher

A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people. — Antony Sher

On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas. — Eden Sher

What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love. — Barbara Sher

There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most. — Barbara Sher

If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful. — Barbara Sher

It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver. — Sher Valenzuela

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy. — Antony Sher

You just have to forget whatever you were taught about "meaningful work" and start noticing whatever has meaning to you. — Barbara Sher

What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret. — Gail Sher

If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want. — Barbara Sher

But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self. — Barbara Sher

Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That's what true adventure really is. — Barbara Sher

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are. — Antony Sher

As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly white, no red stains, but bearing no relation anymore to the shape of a bird. A trail of white feathers flutter down the road after the car. The suddeness is very upsetting. That gentle crunch. — Antony Sher

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. — Antony Sher

In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn't worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them. — Barbara Sher

We weigh ourselves down with so many obstacles we can't even buy a goldfish bowl. — Barbara Sher

He constructed a road from Gaur to the river Indus," says Mushtaqui, but it is more likely that Sher Shah only repaired and realigned the road, for there had been a highway along that grid from ancient times. — Abraham Eraly

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day. — Antony Sher

I don't believe in an afterlife. — Antony Sher

In your fantasies you imagine that you'd love to have all the clutter gone so you could relax, but in fact, nobody really wants to relax. Not for very long, anyway. Everybody needs something to do. — Barbara Sher

Mitt Romney not only believes in the values of economic freedom. His entire life has been committed to advancing it. — Sher Valenzuela

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it. — Barbara Sher

Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history. — Antony Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day. — Barbara Sher

I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies. — Antony Sher

I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life. — Eden Sher

The two most important rules for any dream are: Start small. Start now. For Scanners, add two more: Start everything and Don't bother to finish any of it. (Just save it in your Daybook!) — Barbara Sher

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become. — Barbara Sher

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable. — Barbara Sher

DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand. — Barbara Sher

Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I ever hear you talking about is Leo Tolstoy ...
(tr Benjamin Sher) — Leo Tolstoy

I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique. — Bartlett Sher

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are. — Antony Sher

Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but never had it done to me. From what I'd heard, a 'Trev' is an arm round your shoulder and a sideways squeeze. But this 'Trev' is a full frontal hug, so complete and so intimate that the dressing-room instantly clears, as if by suction. I'm left alone in the arms of this famous man wondering whether it's polite to let go. — Antony Sher

I don't believe you live the good life by doing what you can do; you live it by doing what you want to do. I don't even think your greatest talents necessarily show up in your skills. All of us are good at things we're not madly in love with. And all of us have talents we've never used. Relying on your skills to guide you is simply unacceptable. That's why I don't intend to give you personality tests or skills assessments to find out what you should be doing. I know what you should be doing. You should be doing what you love. What you love is what you are gifted at. Only love will give you the drive to stick to something until you develop your gift. — Barbara Sher

I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active. — Eden Sher

An unlimited future. Isn't that what America is all about? — Sher Valenzuela

Time is clay; make something. — Barbara Sher

If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write. — Gail Sher

A scholar is someone who sticks to things.
A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him. — Barbara Sher

Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality. — Bartlett Sher

[Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself. Not accepting yourself, not taking yourself for granted. Being yourself. Your self. Monty defines 'normality' as a contententment with who you are. — Antony Sher

Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life. — Barbara Sher

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more. — Antony Sher