#off

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#celebrity #clothes #collector #designed #hands

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#dress #either #hamlet #like #most

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#got #growing #growing up #i #off-broadway

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #deceiver #flows #gratitude #how

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. ↗

— Sophocles

#every #every man #far #man #near

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. ↗

— Sophocles

#gave #him #man #more #offer

I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#back #believe #bottom #front #fruits

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#always #before #camera #ever #got

I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#crimes #encouraged #ghastly #horrible #i

The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#first #frustrating #game #going #julia