Second Act Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in. — Joyce Van Patten
Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act,… — Simon Pegg
Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act… — Michael Caine
Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what makes… — Joyce Van Patten
Waiting for Godot . . . has achieved a theoretical impossibilityâ€”a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats.… — Vivian Mercier
I have a whole second act of ARTPOP and I love it. — Lady Gaga
You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the… — Michael Arndt
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a… — Adam Haslett
We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of… — William Winwood Reade
The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he… — Trey Parker
Happily ever after never happens in the second act. — Boyd K. Packer
Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded… — Connie Willis
The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third… — Stephen J. Cannell
One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that… — Justin Cronin
In life, as in art, some endings are bittersweet. Especially when it comes to love. Sometimes fate throws two lovers together only to rip them… — Gossip Girl
I want to be Jackie Onassis and have a second act as a fiction editor. I don't think I wanna write. — Gillian Jacobs

Who Wrote These Second Act Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 16 Second Act Quotes as follows: