#star

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#his #just #know #shakespeare #start

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#get #i #learned #machine #morning

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. ↗

— Sissy Spacek

#appeals #before #dozen #dwarfed #else

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#anything #family #focus #great #had

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends. ↗

— David Spade

#being #being smart #friends #grade #grade school

Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.' ↗

— David Spade

#before #big #big head #could #friend

When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks. ↗

— David Spade

#bucks #country #fly #gig #hundred

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha! ↗

— Hal Sparks

#decided #drummer #focus #found #frustrated

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#away #i #master #program #recently

I'm not getting frustrated... we all knew from the start that this would be a long process. ↗

— Dick Spring

#getting #i #knew #long #long process