#takes

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#learn #mistakes #successes #your

It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him. ↗

— Robert Carlyle

#director #done #him #i #instance

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance. ↗

— John Zorn

#bad performance #check #classical #comfortable #fact

And I do - make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God, and I don't believe he makes mistakes. So I don't believe that being gay is not a sin, and in fact it's how you're made. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#being #believe #christian #fact #gay

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#girl #mistakes #optimist #who

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#fabric #generations #just #once #society

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#five #i #i do #independent #independent films

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#careful #gone #intelligent #into #make

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#certain #overtakes #repose #sense #stop

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#been #being #every #executive #executive producer