Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw
He portrayed the gruff sea captain Quint in Jaws in 1975. As a talented novelist, he wrote Cato Street, The Flag, and A Card from Morocco, among others.
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 August 1927
CityWesthoughton, England
metaphor perceive
You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.
lasts three seconds
Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.
may vengeance lord
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
spiritual religious art
The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.
luxury political focus
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.
drink great
I drink too much. Will you tell me one great actor who doesn't drink?