Arthur Penn Quotes

#1. I believe, and this is perhaps too nationalistic a view, that the American style of acting puts actors quickly in touch with each other, so that their continuous presence in a company, as in England, is not absolutely necessary.

Arthur Penn

#2. You wouldn't have to wash, said Brian, whose parents forced him to wash a great deal more than he thought could possibly be healthy. Not that it did any good. There was something basically ground in about Brian.

Neil Gaiman

#3. A lot of directors in television have come up through the technical ranks. They have all the technical skills in the world. They're not all that familiar with actors.

Arthur Penn

#4. One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.

Arthur Penn

#5. * * * Lunchbox

Bryan W. Fields

#6. '400 Blows' was so much like my own childhood, it really stunned me.

Arthur Penn

#7. Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

Arthur Penn

#8. The Queen, bless her heart, has cultivated procrastination to a degree which is really an art
when one is vexed, as I fear I often am, one should recall that the Bowes Lyons are the laziest family in the world. Against this reflection it becomes remarkable that she accomplishes so much.

Arthur Penn

#9. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.

Arthur Penn

#11. No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

Vincent Bugliosi

#12. When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

Arthur Bryant

#13. And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

Stephen King

#14. The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

Len Goodman

#15. Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and above the fatigue.

Arthur Penn