#scene

Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#comfortable #experienced #feel #going #how

I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room. The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone. It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right. I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him. ↗

— John Passaro

#helplessness #hospital-scene #sympathy #life

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#before #curtain #falling #heart #his

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#confused #face #faced #go #however

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#dependent #deteriorated #economic #find #happened

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#could #dealing #ethnic #ethnic groups #groups

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#back #becomes #character #come #flight

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra. ↗

— Phil Silvers

#berle #extra #get #like #little

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? ↗

— Sydney Smith

#horrors #life #scene #without #would

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#became #between #comedy #entertainments #hammerstein