X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Performing Artist Inspirational Quotes (1249)

Page 1 of 53
Filter & Style
Image
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry
Image
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children
Stephen Fry
Image
People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
Anthony Hopkins
Image
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
Fiona Shaw
Image
Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.
Pam Brown
Image
Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
Harry Houdini
Image
I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?
Justin Bieber
Image
If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying, Okay, it has a lot of taste, and continuing to chew it.
Jaco Van Dormael
Image
Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'
Stephen Fry
Image
What makes the perfect kiss? Closing your eyes when you kiss is important. Or lifting up the leg, but that's more of a girl thing, I'm manly. Passion is good! She brings out the best in me. (Selena)
Justin Bieber
Image
College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.
Steve Martin
Image
I luv the book first step to forever by justin bieber
Justin Bieber
Image
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
Willem Dafoe
Image
I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
Willem Dafoe
Image
You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
Willem Dafoe
Image
When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.
Willem Dafoe
Image
There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
Willem Dafoe
Image
Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.
Willem Dafoe
Image
You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
Willem Dafoe
Image
I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.
Willem Dafoe
Image
The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.
Willem Dafoe
Previous
Next