Material Quotes · Page 13

I'm at my best when I'm being genuine and sincere, and reading my material straight up to an audience that wants to…

— James Bernard Frost

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source…

— Theresa Breslin

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.

— Christian Cooke

The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the…

— Marvin Harris

I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's…

— Clark Duke

These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from…

— Christian Marclay

'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

— Jerry Weintraub

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience…

— Stella Adler

Still, on 'Friends', we had some guest-stars who were less than spectacular, not the stunt-casting, but just regular guest-stars, and they weren't…

— Matt LeBlanc

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner…

— Michael O'Brien

I did 'Mala Noche' as a way to do something that was outside of the system, because I was outside of the…

— Gus Van Sant

When passion has wrecked the body in one life, it is stamped upon the seed atom. In the next descent to rebirth,…

— Max Heindel

I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material is good,…

— Sam Underwood

I don't believe - till something radical changes that we are not on track to do - that hybrids are material to…

— Vinod Khosla

To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and…

— Mark Leibovich

“I decree and I declare that I am not a raw material but rather a finished product. God knows me and knows…

— Israelmore Ayivor

There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.

— Alison Moyet

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

— Louis C. K

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new…

— Andy Taylor

If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because…

— Colin Quinn

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about…

— Kevin Spacey

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

— Stephen Frears

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

— Dee Rees

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of…

— Ben Okri

“Advanced civilizations are recognizable by their elevated contributions to humanity, not by unjustly exploited material technological manifestations.”

— T.F. Hodge

I think the best way for me to go into auditions psychologically was to say, 'You're not going to get it. This…

— Janel Moloney

You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.

— John Wells

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no…

— Adolf Loos

When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre…

— Henry Rollins

With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through…

— John Oates

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every…

— Ed Koch

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

— Kevin Hart

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the…

— Adam Kluger

I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.

— Javier Bardem

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I…

— Matthew Shultz

I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it…

— Belinda Stewart-Wilson

I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.

— Troy Donahue

It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the…

— Willie Geist

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional…

— Marianne Williamson

One thing I believe completely is that the human heart remains the human heart, no matter how our material circumstances change as…

— Geraldine Brooks