Acting is a short, sharp shock, and then I have a two-year break to do some directing. I mean you have to stop-OK, be serious about it-so I've put the kids through school.
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Related You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE. LORRIN L. LEE if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have. LORRIN L. LEE Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha... LORRIN L. LEE These children have been through so much, and they're doing the best they can with what they have. I... LISA STONE At the end of the school year, it was hard, but you know we talked about it through the summer. She ... PAM BROWN I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confide... BALTASAR KORMAKUR I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery. TIM ROTH Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Some... JEFF BRIDGES Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL I think Tim Roth is awesome. EDWARD FURLONG I have learned that acting is not about beauty. VINCENT CASSEL I wanted to be able to call bullshit on some of these guys. OK, Bill O'Reilly, OK Al Franken: 'What ... PAUL RIECKHOFF To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more. LORRIN L. LEE Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can h... LORRIN L. LEE DO what you LOVE. BE with those you LOVE. HAVE the things you LOVE. LORRIN L. LEE I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out... CHARLES BARKLEY I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school t... DANE DEHAAN In England, I've had a more balanced career directing and acting. It can be quite difficult to j... DOUGLAS HODGE It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started actin... JAKE T. AUSTIN But I understand it for a short, not so serious relationship. It's OK. It's putting up boundaries an... TERRI SLOANE I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids. NATE TORRENCE My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lo... SALLY KIRKLAND I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out.... AL JOURGENSEN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I think it says a lot about this team. I have great kids, great kids. They worked hard. They wanted ... KAMI ROEDER High school will probably be better. I mean, some kids will still be jerks, but it's not so bad if y... ROBIN STEVENSON I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try t... DAVID NIVEN I was very inspired by people like Tim Roth and Gary Oldman. I just thought, if they could do it, I ... BRIAN COX I went to school so I could fill in for Bobby when he needs a break or has to be away to do another ... CURTIS BARFIELD How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. I... GEORGE CLOONEY I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else ent... ATOM EGOYAN It takes awhile. Until you've gone through a lot of different situations, like when you need a fourt... JAMIE SHARPER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Up to now we've played some teams where maybe you have to worry about one or two kids. You have to w... MARK STORM A great way to LIVE is to BE, DO, and HAVE all the things you really, really, really want before you... LORRIN L. LEE To be happy: BE Yourself. DO what you love to DO. Have what you love to HAVE. LORRIN L. LEE BE Memorable. Do Memorable Projects. HAVE Memorable Experiences. LORRIN L. LEE You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short... KATEY SAGAL We will have a food truck there, so we hope everyone will drive through in the morning and get coffe... JUDY WHITE At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and... JENNY MCCARTHY I have great kids, one through 15. We knew we weren't going to have to put out any fires all year. T... ED SENNETT I love acting. It's a lot of fun work, interesting work, and you get to work with some very inte... DAVID ALPAY You have to have chemistry - it's acting. I need to make people believe the rumba is about two p... RICKY WHITTLE Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD The Best Person to BE is Who You are. The Best thing to DO is what you Love. The Best Things to HAVE... LORRIN L. LEE You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR In my head, the fact that I have only two more films to make is pushing me. I say: "Oh my God, I've ... LUC BESSON Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling. MATT LEBLANC At high school I wanted to be a million different things so acting is the one profession where you c... KRISTA VENDY Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe p... JANE LEVY To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a... JIMI HENDRIX I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked ... NOLAN GERARD FUNK Dear 2600: OK I have some real serious stuff to tell but I need to be reassured that I can trust you... EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, t... ARIANA GRANDE When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was... EMILY WATSON You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want... MEGAN SMITH I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays. CASEY WILSON If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of... IAN MCKELLEN So when I say it I mean it, and it is not a hypothesis. I have experienced It that way. The mind can... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH How many blind people do you need to testify? I don't mean to be grotesque, but that is what it is a... FRED COHN I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6,... RANDY HOUSER Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w... C. JOYBELL C. You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU He'll probably have a short break soon and then be fitted for a racetrack campaign. PETER MANNING He told me I had to stay strong for my kids and put them through school. I want to do that for him. ... ANNA ORTIZ Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater dir... MARK WATERS I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time wit... ANJELICA HUSTON Kids get burned out. The last thing you want to do is to have someone going into high school who is ... ALVIN ROSENFELD The kids do a really good job. It reflects on our school and the kids in our school that we are able... JACK PEAVEY We have some kids who want to use this high school season and the Legion baseball as a springboard f... WADE MACKEY You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I ... TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and prett... BEAR GRYLLS Well, going to and from the store, the grocery store, taking the kids to school, which, I have no ki... GENE HARRIS It's been an honor to coach the kids and break this record two years in a row. I told them it makes ... LEON HALL You try to make the best of everything, and then you just break down and you cry. Tonight, we're gon... JOHN DYER I was so tense. You have to be so connected. You have to be communicative. You have to be so sharp. ... ANNI FRIESINGER This year, with graduation, we have about two or three players with varsity experience. The kids wit... BRIAN JAPSEN II I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... CASSANDRA CLARE You need to stop looking outside and look inside - and it's such a good feeling. A feeling of lo... MIKE POSNER Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it. PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY We have to break sharp, ... We have to break cleanly. We can't stumble. We can't do anything. We hav... STEVE SHERMAN Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you ... GEORGE LOIS DO what you LOVE.
BE with those you LOVE.
HAVE the things you LOVE.
And ...your LIFE will be well-li... LORRIN L. LEE The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON For me, the big part was qualifying. I hate qualifying. But it was OK to be third, and the short was... BRIAN JOUBERT Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to s... SPIKE LEE Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading... KATE VOEGELE
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