Tisch Quotes & Sayings

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful. — Jonathan Tisch

Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories. — Mason Cooley

I support organizations that help people do better for themselves and the community. — Jonathan Tisch

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning. — Steve Tisch

My father ... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always giving back. It's something I hope that I've become a role model for my children. — Steve Tisch

Money comes to life as it is spent. — Mason Cooley

Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train. — Tom Waits

I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material. — Steve Tisch

As many Giants fans know, we're one of the few teams without cheerleaders. — Steve Tisch

Being an actress wasn't realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would speak to my parents. So I went to NYU Tisch School of the Arts for theater, and I studied at the conservatory. — Gina Rodriguez

I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand. — Roberto Aguire

You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community. — Jonathan Tisch

To find peace, live in the moment with joy. — Debasish Mridha

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering. — Jonathan Tisch

Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'll be in your student film.' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films. — Matthew Gray Gubler

I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day. — Katie Lowes

Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too. — Steve Tisch

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds. — Steve Tisch

I'm saying that you can create success for yourself but also understand that you have a responsibility to others. — Jonathan Tisch

Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation. — Steve Tisch

Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth. — Steve Tisch

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor. — Steve Tisch

The only real way to differentiate yourself from the competition is through service. — Jonathan Tisch

I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle. — Jonathan Tisch

How could he possibly explain himself to these people? They wanted to learn English for show-off social reasons, or to be able to read Aldous Huxley in the original. Whereas he had learned German simply and solely to be able to talk to his sex partners. For him, the entire German language - all the way from the keep-off-the-grass signs in the park to Goethe's stanza on the wall - was irradiated with sex. For him, the difference between a table and ein Tisch was that a table was the dining table in his mother's house and ein Tisch was ein Tisch in the Cosy Corner. * — Christopher Isherwood

First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major. — John Leguizamo

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted. — Harlan Coben

Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.' — Jim Rohn

I would say I'm an optimist by nature. — Steve Tisch

My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet. — Steve Tisch