“I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.” WayDoneHandsActorsWaitingMinutesReadyArmsDirectorsCornersShakesNow And ThenUp And DownRehearsalTediousBounceWaiting Around Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.” WantedComfortableBeing MyselfSneakers Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.” PeopleFeelsDifferentFacesTurnsBlackCareersLuckyThank You God Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white.” KindNamesWhiteBloodColorBlueMy FavoritePurpleHideousLavenderFavorite ColorPeriwinkleBlue And White Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.” PeriodsRight NowBlueBlondeBlue Eyes Author:Hugh Hefner
“The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.” PeopleLifeMotivationalGuyInterestingFantasyInteresting Things Author:Hugh Hefner
“Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.” FactsProblemAudienceMusicianAffected Author:Hamid Drake
“Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.” PeopleStillsLeftReligiousLettersEnglandAgreeBoardsPersecutionPuritanScarletPuritanismReligious PersecutionDunking Author:Hugh Hefner
“If you say you have an empty mind and you don't have an empty mind, you only know later that you have an empty mind. Because if you say you have empty mind, you don't have empty mind, because you're already thinking about it.” IfsThinkingKnowsMindEmptyEmpty Mind Author:Hamid Drake
“When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of this thing that we call jazz - of course it's different than what Americans do, because Europeans have a different history, a different sensibility and so forth - the nature of the creative process itself it's the same; but what comes from that creative process is different, because you have a different history, you have a different society, different language.” WayDifferentCoursesLanguageProcessCreativeEuropeJazzCreative ProcessSensibilityReconstructionInterpretingDifferent LanguagesDeconstruction Author:Hamid Drake
