#om

There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#anyone #big #completely #different #direction

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#body #changing #characters #every #everything

When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#boundaries #feeling #here #him #i

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#hold #joe #man #mccarthy #put

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#bob #bob hope #burns #caesar #case

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#basically #become #company #demands #enormous

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#composers #find #i #i think #living

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. ↗

— Norman Thomas

#faults #forefathers #freedom #given #loved

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. ↗

— Plautus

#gain #must #seeks #some #who

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut! ↗

— Sean Patrick Thomas

#art #back #barber #because #being