Holmes Historic Theatre Quotes

Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist. ~ William Everson

In other people's books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from 'The Hunger Games.' And I think, probably, my favorite character of all time is Sherlock Holmes. ~ Cassandra Clare

Christians are sinners like everyone else. The real difference is grace. ~ Gina Holmes

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you. ~ Constantin Stanislavski

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig. ~ Cate Blanchett

The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre. ~ Frederick Lenz

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world. ~ Elliot Cowan

Kit: Elemantary?
Ty: You know, Holmes never says, "Elementary, my dear Watson", i nthe books.
Kit: I swear I've seen it in the movies or maybe on TV.
Ty: Who would ever want movies or TV when there are books? ~ Cassandra Clare

I hate to wish bad things on you, son, but I hope you get the privilege someday of having no one to lean on but God. It changes a person. It sure changed me. ~ Gina Holmes

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. ~ John Holmes

I'd love to build a brand, a legacy. ~ Ryan Holmes

Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B. ~ Dorothy Parker

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium. ~ Arthur Lowe

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space. ~ William Alexander

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record. ~ John Edward Redmond

It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night! ~ Neil Patrick Harris

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing ~ Martin Buber

I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. ~ Rowan Atkinson

Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make no bones about the fact that I steal from here and I take from there, and we all do it, that's perfectly all right, that's the nothing, there's nothing new in the world, there's nothing actually new in the way that you do something, but the point is is how do you take something and use it to articulate what is essentially a core of any given theatrical production. ~ Simon McBurney

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable. ~ Emily Watson

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world order can emerge. ~ George W. Bush

One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it.
-Sherlock Holmes ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television. ~ Abhishek Bachchan

If every auditorium were razed to the ground, theatre would still survive, because the hunger in each of us to act and be acted to, is genetic. This intense hunger even crosses the threshold of sleep. For we direct, perform and witness performances every night - theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt. ~ Declan Donnellan

Her friendship with Amma is based on historic loyalty and comfortable familiarity rather than shared interests and perspectives ~ Bernardine Evaristo

Interestingly, this character [Doctor Nash] is probably closer to me than somebody like the evil Sir Godfrey in Robin Hood or Lord Blackwood who wants to take over the world in Sherlock Holmes. This is a character that's English, he's based in London, and so it's closer to me than a lot of stuff I've been doing recently. ~ Mark Strong

That's," I say. My words are all tangled up. "That's. Insane. You're insane."
"I prefer the term brilliant. ~ Eva Morgan

On 'Dawson's Creek,' those kids were supposed to be outsider kids - you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there's no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn't the prom queen, hottest girl in school. ~ Rob Thomas

As Patrick Harpur points out, we cannot 'explain' or 'decode' a myth. To look for the historic or scientific 'truth' of a myth is but to retell the myth, albeit in a less satisfying way. We render unto materialism the control of our most precious mythologies if we allow them to be 'scientifically explained' to us. A new language is required. New words. ~ Gordon White

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting. ~ Janet McTeer