Act Quote by Derek Walcott Download Open image “My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.” — Derek Walcott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Act Mother Parenting Shakespeare Taught Used
My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people. — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp. — Finn Wolfhard Copy Share Image
My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as… — Xavier Samuel Copy Share Image
My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition. — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here— we’re not put on earth— to shape it anyway we want... You want something to happen with poetry, but it doesn’t make anything happen. So then somebody says, “What’s the use of poetry?” Then you say,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share
“I shall unlearn feeling, unlearn my gift. That is greater and harder than what passes there for life.” — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you… — Derek Walcott Copy Share
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK,… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s all around you. Don’t deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you. Now that you know, you cannot feign ignorance. Now that you’re aware of the problem, you cannot pretend you don’t care.… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share
I always advise people not to act upon the advice that I give them. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act.… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
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