Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Kane

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

Orlando Jones

When you're trying to find that line between are you doing comedy, are you doing drama, what are you doing, Martin, for me, anchors it very often, because he approaches it from such just a pure acting standpoint.

Aasif Mandvi

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

Alan Tudyk

The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.

Alan Ladd

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

Alan Ladd

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

Alan Ladd

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

Charlie Chaplin

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Allen Abney

We have received the resignation letter from Duran, effective on August 31, and today the president designated Carlos Marin to be acting United States commissioner.

Kathleen Battle

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

Artur Rodzinski

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

Miriam Makeba

I was so scared. Such a big orchestra

Mark Thielen

I remember when we did the Tchaikovsky (concerto), he just flew. We weren't used to that. But when we do things like that, it makes the orchestra grow.

Pat Miller

It is extraordinary - the orchestra tells you so much about the stage and what's going on,

Christopher Young

Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it's to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way back on 'Hellraiser' or 'Jennifer 8' - one of those really orchestral scores.

David Ogden Stiers

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

David Ogden Stiers

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Liza Frulla

All orchestras have problems, and I can see it all over Canada. We just bailed out the Winnipeg orchestra, three years ago,

Alison Krauss

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

Aleksey Igudesman

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

David Garrett

Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.

Daniel Barenboim

I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.

George Eliot

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

John Coltrane

The first violins have the most interesting part.

Louisa May Alcott

…the violin — that most human of all instruments…

Larry McMurtry

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.