Able Quote by Laurence Sterne Download Open image “An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.” — Laurence Sterne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Creativity Physics Should Theatre Universe
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
There is an imperative need for the creator in every supporting actor to be able to perceive the gravity of these roles. — Thambi Ramaiah Copy Share Image
The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite. — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
“the universe must have been created by an all-powerful prime mover who, however, took no interest in his handiwork.” — Philip Freeman Copy Share Image
A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
If you're creating a whole universe, even if it's a universe squeezed into a solar system, you have to use a little bit of… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality. — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining;… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image