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Spoken Reasons Quote: 'Comedy was something I picked up ...'

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It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures.
Tracy Letts
Tags: Always Your Been
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
Maria Montessori
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Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.


Martin Parr
Tags: People Just Show
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.
Tracy Letts
Tags: Movies Our Way
Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at least in public. Nobody wants the stigma of being thought poor.
Virginia Postrel
Tags: People Want Being
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I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers.


Louise Nurding
Tags: Who Up Show
There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.
Thomas Lennon
Tags: Up Had Then
Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we'd be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I'd always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.
Rick Moranis
Tags: Like Up Always
It's such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.
Nicky Whelan
Tags: Get Then Any
I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'
Tasha Smith
Tags: Then First Doing
I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.
Carrie Fisher
Tags: You Because Want
I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.
Jai Courtney
Tags: Just Got School
Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
Caleb Deschanel
Tags: War Nature People
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.
Charles Saatchi
Tags: Like More Things
I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that.
Matt Reeves
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Baltasar Gracian
Tags: You People Who
I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word, not just a set up and a pay-off. I liked the zaniness; they were satirical, slightly saucy and very literary in their references.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Tags: Funny Just Up
I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
Frances Bay
Tags: Time About Just
People come to a show, then they go back to their neighborhood, and it has become like word-of-mouth. Everybody loves to turn somebody on to something. It kind of just snowballed.
Sebastian Maniscalco
Tags: People Like Just
If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.
Michael Schenker