Backgrounds Quote by Danny Glover Download Open image “My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.” — Danny Glover ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backgrounds Great work Playwright South South africa South African Theatrical
There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Before acting offers came by, I dabbled in theatre under the aegis of the late thespian Dinesh Thakur. He was instrumental in honing my… — Arfi Lamba Copy Share Image
From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
I stumbled into acting. My dad, James, was a barrister but he was always very creative and he loved theatre and the arts. — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
My foundation in acting has been serious theatre: Albert Camus, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare. It's really the best medium to learn the craft. — Rajesh Khattar Copy Share Image
I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak,… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
What he [Barack Obama] does to change the world - that's what's important. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image