“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.” WantFirstsLittlesTwoCharacterNightActorsPrayerLaughingFiveMinutesStageDemandStartingStakesBroadwayFive MinutesExitStarting Out Author:Charles Kimbrough
“The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.” FirstsBookMomentsLastsFiveMinutesErrorsProductionsFinishedBlissFlawsFive MinutesDoorstepCulminationMoment Of Truth Book:More Matter: Essays And Criticism Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism
“For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.” PeopleFirstsFivePiecesWrittenMiddleMinutesSeriesRadioBrownFive MinutesAstonishingMiddle Of NowhereMr Brown Author:Brendan O'Carroll