Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater, in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, and they felt that feeling of transformation.
You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.
Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
People like to talk more than they like to act. They like to sit there and complain and vent. Somehow they think that changes things, when it doesn't.
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.
Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.
Most of the people interviewing me are far more square than me. I think it's the ET thing. I'm sitting there, my hair is combed, and I'm in a suit.
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
It’s hard to be present when your attention is suffering information overload. Switch off and just sit still.
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.
I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.
Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.
When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.
I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
