FastSaying

When we wrapped 'Angel,' I definitely had a moment where I thought, 'Wow, that was the best job I'm ever gonna have.'


J. August Richards

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war...
M.I.A. I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL 'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought th...
PATRICK FISCHLER I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situati...
DREW BREES When I saw my first Broadway show, 'Beauty and the Beast,' I was like, 'Okay, I'm de...
LILLA CRAWFORD I don't think I've had love at first sight. But, I've definitely had moments where I'...
JOSH HUTCHERSON I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a gol...
JEREMY LONDON I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there&#...
MARISSA MAYER As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was l...
CLIFF BURTON I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'...
BEBE REXHA I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and e...
EDGAR WRIGHT By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month ...
GARRETT CLAYTON I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear. When I took the 'Hellcats' job, I was like, &#...
ASHLEY TISDALE La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not...
NATHAN FILLION When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it&#...
FRED ARMISEN I always think that today is the best day that there's ever been. The song that I'm working ...
J. D. SOUTHER I say this about everything: when I was on 'Neighbours,' I said, 'These are the best yea...
MARGOT ROBBIE I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in jo...
EMMA CAULFIELD I have caught my reflection and thought, 'Oof. That girl is struggling. That girl is tired.'...
MELISSA MCCARTHY I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap...
FETTY WAP Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied....
BUCK OWENS We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things ...
DAVID CONE I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them...
DOLLY PARTON Vocally, I'm definitely pushing out more. That feels good. It's very freeing. I've alway...
CIARA I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where...
LANCE BASS I had an interesting moment with 'Wonder Woman' where, when I first thought about doing '...
PATTY JENKINS I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
ANNIE LENNOX If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day...
CESAR ROMERO Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I ...
NOAH BAUMBACH The first CD I had was 'Definitely Maybe' by Oasis, and I had a tape of' 'Parklife&#...
IWAN RHEON So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell ...
JOHN TRAVOLTA There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might...
CHRIS YOUNG You have to make sure you have the right people around you to get the right fights, and you're n...
KATIE TAYLOR Man, I'm 6 foot 8. I'm gonna be typecast. It's not like I'm gonna be the romantic le...
TYLER MANE When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I ...
TABITHA SOREN I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell ...
JIMMY SWAGGART When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.
NATASSIA MALTHE When I was seven and watched an episode of 'Beyond 2000' that featured a floating armchair, ...
STELLA YOUNG I think I've definitely had my rock bottom and I think that was probably right before I went int...
DEMI LOVATO I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be th...
STIPE MIOCIC I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't k...
MAYA ANGELOU When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'Peo...
GERARD BUTLER I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I ...
CAMILA CABELLO The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagul...
CAREY MULLIGAN I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' f...
TAMALA JONES Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Lis...
DANNEL MALLOY I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a pa...
KATE MICUCCI When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian.
DAVE FRANCO When my wife was getting a lease for her Jeep Cherokee, and I saw a Dodge Ram Sport, I thought, '...
STIPE MIOCIC I wouldn't say that I was ever a fan of MTV. I was a guy on MTV. I don't think I was ever in...
DAVID GIUNTOLI That was a very aha moment. It was, 'I'm in the big leagues.'
RYAN HOWARD Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I do...
FLEA I don't listen to the radio, cause I don't have a driver's license. But if I'm in L....
BENNY BLANCO 'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around wit...
ADAM LEVINE Ever since I was a child, I've just had this sense that I'm connected to the spiritual world...
SUZI QUATRO I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.
STEVEN ADLER I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'...
WALE I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I...
JO NESBO I'm a massive 'WoW' nerd, and gamer in general.
KRISTIAN NAIRN I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I'v...
DAVID NEVINS Who directed the video 'No More Drama' for Mary J. Blige. I was actually kickin' with J....
NE-YO If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.
KENDRICK LAMAR I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel', anymore than they'll forget ...
CHERYL LADD I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or ev...
ALAN C. GREENBERG When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned t...
BETSY BRANDT So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some...
MARY J. BLIGE There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has co...
LAURA BELL BUNDY On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospi...
ERIC DANE I love collard greens and sweet potatoes. But like, traveling, I'm always just looking for that ...
NENEH CHERRY I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thi...
KASKADE I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever t...
WALE Chimere's not mine. That hurt 'cause I had attached myself to this guy, you know. This is my...
NE-YO If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm h...
ICE T I used to work at this store, and I got fired when I actually booked the job on 'Glee' becau...
TAYLOUR PAIGE

More J. August Richards

I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed t...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enoug...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like C...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch '...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars'...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
J. AUGUST RICHARDS Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.
J. AUGUST RICHARDS What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse e...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore - she teach...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
J. AUGUST RICHARDS To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportu...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - al...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.
J. AUGUST RICHARDS In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were lo...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, a...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing wha...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect t...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard a...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentimen...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman b...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to l...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature ...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point o...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant thems...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage ...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband ...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is e...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG I dream, therefore I exist.
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your...
AUGUST WILSON I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to lif...
AUGUST WILSON I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black American...
AUGUST WILSON I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a ...
AUGUST WILSON Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. ...
AUGUST WILSON Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the c...
AUGUST WILSON If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.
AUGUST HECKSCHER Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your...
AUGUST WILSON I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
AUGUST STRINDBERG He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original...
BILLE AUGUST Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the c...
AUGUST WILSON People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
AUGUST STRINDBERG In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are &#...
AUGUST KROGH I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reaso...
AUGUST WILSON I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, Februar...
AUGUST WILSON I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
AUGUST STRINDBERG Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentimen...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman b...
AUGUST STRINDBERG The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband ...
AUGUST STRINDBERG I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love
AUGUST STRINDBERG People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
AUGUST STRINDBERG Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage ...
AUGUST STRINDBERG That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of al...
AUGUST STRINDBERG I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
AUGUST STRINDBERG People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard a...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
AUGUST STRINDBERG What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, in...
AUGUST HARE Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
AUGUST HARE Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
AUGUST HARE Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav...
AUGUST HARE We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the d...
AUGUST BEBEL Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
AUGUST BEBEL Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization
AUGUST BEBEL We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the d...
AUGUST BEBEL We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which...
AUGUST KROGH I do - very specifically, I remember Bessie Smith; I used to collect 78 records that I would buy fro...
AUGUST WILSON We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways wi...
BILLE AUGUST In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alc...
AUGUST WILSON Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature ...
AUGUST STRINDBERG How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.
AUGUST WILSON Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, ...
AUGUST WILSON I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you trea...
AUGUST WILSON She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that a...
BILLE AUGUST Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so ...
BILLE AUGUST It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I ...
BILLE AUGUST It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important s...
BILLE AUGUST I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television...
BILLE AUGUST I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical relea...
BILLE AUGUST I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole ...
BILLE AUGUST I like the vulnerability, the naked face. And then, of course, I hadn't done a contemporary story in...
BILLE AUGUST He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original...
BILLE AUGUST From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.
BILLE AUGUST I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant thems...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, b...
JOHN AUGUST Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, b...
JOHN AUGUST post-apocalyptic fantasy.
JOHN AUGUST We wanted to make a version that wasn't so disturbing that you couldn't put it in a family movie,
JOHN AUGUST On the surface, she appears to be a monster but in fact she is kind and sweet and misunderstood.
JOHN AUGUST I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it....
AUGUST WILSON We were not ready to play. The matches we won, everybody contributed and the most we lost everybody ...
DON AUGUST We challenged New Trier a little bit in the second game. New Trier is just a little better than us r...
DON AUGUST To their credit they never quit. It was one of those frustrating nights where we kept shooting ourse...
DON AUGUST We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we bac...
DON AUGUST We were what you would call a poor family, but we were rich in so many things. We did family things ...
AUGUST WILSON I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like thi...
AUGUST WILSON Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; maste...
AUGUST WILSON Black actors are mostly locked out of the house, and there is something dreadfully wrong with that,
AUGUST WILSON It's not like poker: You can't throw your hand in. I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready.
AUGUST WILSON Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude t...
AUGUST WILSON Near the turn of the century, the destitute of Europe sprang on the city with tenacious claws and an...
AUGUST WILSON The harder you try to hold onto them, the easier it is for some gal to pull them away.
AUGUST WILSON I feel sort of embarrassed I don't go to plays, but I can't keep the characters straight. I feel I s...
AUGUST WILSON All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand ...
AUGUST WILSON To my observation, the black middle class has failed to return the expertise and sophistication and ...
AUGUST WILSON Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to...
AUGUST WILSON When blacks made purchases in any store, they weren't given paper bags; instead, they had to carry o...
AUGUST WILSON A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a ...
AUGUST WILSON It's not as if he didn't understand that much of his behavior was driven by desperation and self-hat...
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical r...
BILLE AUGUST There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but...
AUGUST KROGH It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at...
AUGUST KROGH From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered withou...
AUGUST WILSON The way I see it, the stage tells the story for the ear, and the screen for the eye... On stage, you...
AUGUST WILSON Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
AUGUST WILSON I have to confess that I'm not a big movie person. I don't go to a lot of films. And I don't know ve...
AUGUST WILSON Blacks in America want to forget about slavery -- the stigma, the shame. That's the wrong move. If y...
AUGUST WILSON All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand a...
AUGUST WILSON It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself...
AUGUST WILSON I might be a different kind of fool, but I ain't gonna be the same fool twice.
AUGUST WILSON We are running out of energy, mental energy, ... We need to generate something new, for ourselves.
AUGUST WILSON Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
AUGUST WILSON An August heritage / August Wilson and The Pittsburgh Cycle
AUGUST WILSON assimilation that black Americans have been rejecting for the past 380 years.
AUGUST WILSON Gem of the Ocean,
AUGUST WILSON My plays are talky; I say shut up and listen. They are about black men talking, and in American soci...
AUGUST WILSON Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your...
AUGUST WILSON You look up one day and you hate the whiskey, and you hate the women, and you hate the piano. But th...
AUGUST WILSON I need a woman that fits in my hand.
AUGUST WILSON I don't have a musical background. But I do enjoy all kinds of music. It's an expression of the huma...
AUGUST WILSON You have to make your own definition of yourself. That's crucial. When I do interviews, I am expecte...
AUGUST WILSON I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other...
AUGUST WILSON I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
AUGUST WILSON I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is...
AUGUST WILSON When you look at a fellow, if you taught yourself to look for it, you can see his song written on hi...
AUGUST WILSON As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
AUGUST WILSON I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s ...
AUGUST WILSON Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
AUGUST WILSON He liked the girls, liked to hold them around the waist, felt like a man when he did. But as for tal...
AUGUST STRINDBERG I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human...
AUGUST WILSON I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and ...
AUGUST KROGH [Wilson may never see the marquee or sit in the theater that carries his name. Last month, in an int...
AUGUST WILSON Writing has definitely been a refuge for me, something I needed to do in order to survive.
AUGUST WILSON I feel free, man,
AUGUST WILSON The fact that he was a self-made man, that he was a lieutenant in the army and became the emperor, I...
AUGUST WILSON [Reviewing the play's Broadway premiere for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that in] Ma Rainey,...
AUGUST WILSON I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.
AUGUST WILSON I'm glad I finished the cycle [of plays],
AUGUST WILSON I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready.
AUGUST WILSON I'm standing! I'm standing! My legs stood up!
AUGUST WILSON I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
AUGUST WILSON Many is the time I looked at my daddy and seen him staring off at his hands. I got a little older I ...
AUGUST WILSON it was as far away from New York as I could get.
AUGUST WILSON [With the cycle done and] Radio Golf ... a war between coffin makers and undertakers, Death taking a...
AUGUST WILSON He paused. ''But what if they say they're going to cut off the heads of my children? If it's just me...
AUGUST WILSON The Piano Lesson.
AUGUST WILSON For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I...
AUGUST WILSON There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the bl...
AUGUST WILSON What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a glob...
AUGUST WILSON I think that if I'm at home sitting doing the rewrite, I'm going to write something different than i...
AUGUST WILSON You can only close if you opened.
AUGUST WILSON American society as a whole has a very short memory. There are a lot of things we don't know or have...
AUGUST WILSON I should take a page from my lawyer-every time I call, he's on vacation, four or five times a year.
AUGUST WILSON Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything righ...
AUGUST WILSON Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and a...
AUGUST WILSON There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
AUGUST SANDER The mob could begin to rule in a few days if these people do not get more food and water. I think it...
AUGUST PILLSBURY I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the poi...
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent.
AUGUST HECKSCHER We always think about the rights of the terrorists. But if there is an attack that you could have pr...
AUGUST HANNING As new developments they present new dangers.
AUGUST HANNING My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that ...
AUGUST WILSON I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.
J.M. AUGUST I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ...
AUGUST WILSON The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained wh...
AUGUST KROGH Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is e...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Walk in there. Tip my hat. Lay my money down on the table. Get my deed and walk on out. This time I ...
AUGUST WILSON Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.
AUGUST KROGH During my stay in London I resided for a considerable time in Clapham Road in the neighbourhood of C...
AUGUST KEKULé You have this novel idea of the world, like it’s made up of ladder hunting and test taking and fra...
J.M. AUGUST Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sur...
AUGUST WILSON Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth.
AUGUST KEKULé I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch ...
AUGUST WILSON Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.
AUGUST WILSON The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced b...
AUGUST KROGH