Rooms Quotes - Page 65

Surely mortal man is a broomstick!

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

Across the nation, thousands of people are lining up in hospital waiting rooms, out the doors, down the steps, around the corners, and behind the hedges, waiting for their inoculations. Here's another idea for avoiding the flu: DON'T stand outside in the cold for hours around lots of other people.

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

It's rare when you're actually making a movie and it feels like you're watching a movie in the theater. You feel like a surfer in a wave, catching the wave, going for it every time, there's electricity in the room, it doesn't feel like acting, you ride the wave.

Rick Rubin came to my concert in Orange County, Calif. I believe this was, like, '83 when he first came and listened to the show. And then afterwards, I went in the dressing room and sat and talked to him.

I enjoy being on my own. I feel like I have more room to stretch. I have to go with the flow.

In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.

This is something that the nimblest standup comedians learn, over time, to handle gracefully. They'll go between prepared material, then they'll respond to what's happening in the room and weave it back into the prepared material and so on.

So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

Death is the room that is always empty.

I end up improvising in almost everything to some degree, 'cause it's often necessary on movies. The script is one thing, and it's this kind of theory of what you're going to do, and then you get there on the day and you realize, "Oh, the script is not appropriate to this room, the door's over here."

...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.

If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.

What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.