Will Harrison
Will Harrison
children simple want
One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!
legends lunchtime
Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.
running art long
When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a run, the evenings seem very long indeed. You have to find something to keep yourself occupied because you're so used to gearing yourself up for that 8 O'clock curtain that to find any kind of really absorbing alternative is impossible . Nobody is as interesting to spend an evening with as a really good part.
animal degrees language
If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree...
thieves tomorrow pleasure
Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.
running teacher block
Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did no good. My range is about one and a half notes. I ended up talking the musical numbers, which was revolutionary at the time. The lyrics are extremely intricate. They move along like a precisely acted scene. If you miss a word - heaven help you - the orchestra rattles past like an express train, and you've got to run like the devil to catch up.
dirty challenges lows
Having been challenged by Colonel Pickering, Higgins: You know, it's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.
taste meat vegetarian
Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.
thinking acting important
The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium.
depressing pygmalion native-language
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible. Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
life men thinking
Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man
emotional acting actors
Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor
needs mystery charming
Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.
age prove
I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.