Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

Aprilynne Pike

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

Ashley Olsen

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

Dean Gilmour

Shakespeare was such a lover of theatre, and theatre is an illusion.

Sydney Smith

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Alexander Pushkin

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Albert Einstein

Time is an illusion.

Nada Doumani

Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.

Ben Wagner

I don't have any illusions that I'll become rich off this project.

Chris Cleave

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

Aimee Bender

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

Edith Sitwell

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

Edith Wharton

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

Axl Rose

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

Unknown

To our wives and lovers - may they never meet!

Alexandre Dumas

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

Charles Bukowski

Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

Aristotle

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Kenneth Branagh

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

Robert Gottlieb

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

Claire Tomalin

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

Greg Evans

Shakespeare was shakespeare; whether untrussing, but still him.

William Shakespeare

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

Brian d'Arcy James

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

David Hewson

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

Courtney B. Vance

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Tim Crouch

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

Alan Rickman

I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

Alan Jay Lerner

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Chadwick

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

Al Pacino

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

Akira Kurosawa

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Chita Rivera

Theatre is immediate gratification

David McCullough

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

Catherine Deneuve

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Charley Pride

I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.