#dio

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. ↗

— Denis Leary

#feel #good #good writing #great #like

When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#come #dinner #down #family #go

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at. ↗

— William Hung

#feel #good #i #i feel #idiot

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#audio #available #avoid #because #being

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#birth #equivalent #genius #great #great genius

I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired. ↗

— Courtney Love

#i can #inspired #now #radio #right

I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#ago #bowls #everyone #everything #fan

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors. ↗

— James MacArthur

#ago #care #craft #developed #flourished

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#being #camps #center #even #holocaust

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#bell #come #discovered #field #labs