“My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.” ShowsReadingLeftRoomsTvsDirectorsTv ShowsAuditionsCastingHallwaysCasting Directors Author:Danny Strong
“Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?” KnowsWantTryingShowsHomeActorsLeftTalkingWeekCrewPerfectionistHanging AroundLeft HandedFussy Author:Eric Stoltz
“We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.” PeopleBookStatesStoriesShowsWantedPoliticalLeftViewsPovertyWrittenCrimeReaderPoint Of ViewWelfareOfficialsCopiesLayersRealisedBrutalitySwedenWelfare StateCriminality Author:Maj Sjowall
“I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.” ShowsLeftParentNumbersComedyFourNew YorkSixDancingPianoPerformersBalletPuerto RicoRicoComedy ShowsPlaying PianoBallet Dancing Author:Roselyn Sanchez
“But 'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.” PeopleGivingTryingShowsLeftActingClassSawsShotsPaidWestHeyEpisodesCoastBugsArizonaWest CoastActing Classes Author:Christine Taylor
“At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.” ShouldShowsPoliticalBeliefLeftFeltStuffMy OwnShould HaveGrindSnl Author:Al Franken
“When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.” ShowsRealityLeftAbsolutesFortuneSexyVideoCalendarsLadReality ShowsMags Author:Michelle Ryan
“In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.” IfsMayChildrenSaidShowsFallCoursesLeftForcePoorPayRichEssentialsPercentCapitalismTasksSickIncreaseBurdenCaringCanadaOur SocietyStatisticsGapsFamily LifeDisabledCollisionChild CareWorking Life Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.” IfsKnowsMeanShowsReadingLeftPleaseMarkCopiesAphorismKnow YourselfUneasiness Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“I’m always looking to top the last match, I’m always looking to entertain the fans and steal the show. Before I always thought that it was a case of opportunities, but I’m learning that it’s all in my control and I just want to keep on doing what I’m doing by giving my best. I’ve got a couple more magical matches left in me and hopefully at some stage, I guess the biggest honour would be going into the TNA Hall of Fame.” WantGivingShowsWould BeLastsOpportunityLeftCasesFansStageCoupleFameStealingHopefullyHallsHonourHall Of Fame Author:Gail Kim
“They left us together for a reason. Let's show them why.” ReasonShowsTogetherLeftNhlBlackhawks Author:Patrick Kane
“Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.” PeopleLittlesPersonsShowsLeftTalentLimitsExpectationsEach DaySurprisingDisplayNoveltyShowing OffBragging Author:Baltasar Gracian
“I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.” MenWayYearsStillsShowsLawLeftPracticeFourTenLawyerGet BackRetiringFour YearsVitalityAttorney Author:Bill Vaughan