#henry

Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled. (Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.) ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#henry-viii #historical-fiction #historical-novel #thomas-cromwell #historical-fiction

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead. ↗

— Henry Miller

#henry-miller #first-sentence

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown. ↗

— Tori Amos

#clerical #collar #father #first #gay

I've played Henry Fonda's mother so often that, whenever we run into each other, I call him 'son' and he calls me 'Ma', just to save time. ↗

— Jane Darwell

#calls #each #fonda #henry #him

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#contain #does #drama #feudal #few

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#america #came #captain #captain america #easy

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#direct #director #ego #energy #enough

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#fonda #henry #henry fonda #i #like

I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys. ↗

— Robin Yount

#also #early #even #ever #frank

On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled. ↗

— Gary Locke

#beijing #china #chinese #every #experience