#ram

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama. ↗

— Sean Penn

#comedies #demands #done #draining #drama

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#parameters #probably #procedure #some #you

I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#about #audition #because #coach #department

So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#enough #get #i #keep #lot

Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project. ↗

— Lou Diamond Phillips

#box #bring #diversity #does #dramatic

When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#been #called #exactly #flying #idiot

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#between #book #connections #constitution #debates

This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#broadcast #channel #double #ended #france

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex. ↗

— Adam Sedgwick

#aim #anger #apex #babel #daring

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#author #computer #computer program #construct #him