Top 93 Corbett Quotes
#1. David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets of wisdom for the seasoned storyteller. If you are a writer, it should be on your desk.
Jacqueline Winspear
#2. I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.
David Simon
#3. It was the winter after Mother died, and Mrs. Corbett and some of the Brother's wives came to call. They kept bleating on about how sorry they were and my poor dear mother. It was infuriating. They didn't know Mother at all; she never liked any of them. They were just nosy, noisy sheep.
Jessica Spotswood
#4. I know you've dated now and then. I know, because I considered having any man who went out with you shot. Thought about it quite seriously, in fact.
- Corbett Lazlo
Kathleen Creighton
#5. Now that I'm experiencing motherhood, I'm ready to write the next chapter of my family story. Of course a few jaded folks in the press corps will claim I ran out of money or just want to kiss John Corbett again. One of these things is true.
Nia Vardalos
#6. On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.
Nia Vardalos
#7. David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character development. Deftly crafted and impeccably researched, The Art of Character is a thoughtful and insightful book that is immensely readable and practical.
Sheldon Siegel
#8. When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.
Dorothy Hamill
#9. When people seek to fulfill their callings by glorifying God in their work, praising Him for their gifts and abilities, and seeing both their efforts and its products as an offering to Him, then work is an act of worship to God.
Steve Corbett
#10. Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.
David Corbett
#11. We could adopt. there are lots of kids out there who could grow up to hate us as much as any kid we could make
Natalie Corbett Sampson
#12. I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.
John Corbett
#13. Personal piety and formal worship are essential to the Christian life, but they must lead to lives that "act justly and love mercy" (Mic. 6:8).
Steve Corbett
#14. Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.
John Corbett
#15. I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others.
Mike Corbett
#16. It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.
Ronnie Corbett
#17. There is a sort of mental treason
That smothers dreams outside of reason
Mike Corbett
#18. A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
Ronnie Corbett
#19. Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.
James J. Corbett
#20. You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.
John Corbett
#21. Whether we know it or not, our minds and hearts are populated by all the characters we will ever need - though we may disassemble them and rearrange the parts into composites for variation.
David Corbett
#22. I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.
John Corbett
#23. Those who have never seen a leopard under favourable conditions in his natural surroundings can have no conception of the grace of movement, and beauty of colouring, of this the most gracefuL and the most beautiful of all animales in our Indian jungles.
Jim Corbett
#24. I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.
John Corbett
#25. Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear.
Steve Corbett
#26. Did you have a good nap?" Emil asked.
"Yeah, I guess I was tired. I need to practice resting when I go on vacations instead of getting stressed out."
"Why are you stressed?" Emil Asked, perplexed. This question confirmed it for me, guys really are idiots.
Angela Corbett
#27. I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.
Ronnie Corbett
#28. Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
#29. You said I told you I was in love with someone else, but I'm not. That's not what I meant. Cassandra was a part of my past, but our time together ended. The only person I want, the only person I love, is you.
Angela Corbett
#30. Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally reduce poor people to objects that I use to fulfill my own need to accomplish something. I am not okay, and you are not okay. But Jesus can fix us both.
Steve Corbett
#31. I just think you should get married if you want to have some kids.
John Corbett
#32. Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.
John Corbett
#33. If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday (Isa. 58:10, italics added).
Steve Corbett
#34. An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.
David Corbett
#35. Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.
Molly Corbett Broad
#36. A leopard, on the other hand, even after it has killed scores of human beings, never loses its fear of man; and, as it is unwilling to face human beings in daylight, it secures its victims when they are moving about at night or by breaking into their houses at night. Owing
Jim Corbett
#37. The dividing line between the superstitions of simple uneducated people who live on high mountains, and the beliefs of sophisticated educated people who live at lesser heights, is so faint that it is difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins.
Jim Corbett
#38. For me ... " the words seemed difficult for Alex to find, "getting to stay with you, to spend more time with you ... to love you the way
you should be loved, it's all I live for.
Angela Corbett
#39. You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
James J. Corbett
#40. It was as though the man-eater - for no other leopard would have killed the goat and laid it on the track- had said, 'Here, if you want your goat so badly, take it; and as it is now dark and you have a long way to go, we will see which of you lives to reach the village.
Jim Corbett
#41. I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.
John Corbett
#42. I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.
John Corbett
#43. Leopards, that is ordinary forest leopards, do not like rain and invariably seek shelter, but the man eater was not an ordinary leopard, and there was no knowing what his likes or dislikes were, or what he might or might not do.
Jim Corbett
#44. I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.
John Corbett
#46. Alex moved closer to me, never taking his eyes from mine. "What if your eternity doesn't start when you die?" he asked carefully. "What if your eternity has been going on since before you were born?"
I stared at him with a blank face, wondering what drugs he was on.
Angela Corbett
#47. There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory
Jim Corbett
#48. Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.
John Corbett
#49. Alex watched me with a measured stare. "What if he's dangerous?"
I smiled wickedly. "Then I'll die happy.
Angela Corbett
#50. I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart.
Ronnie Corbett
#52. Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
#53. No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny.
Mike Corbett
#54. Emil stood on the other side, bags under his
eyes, his hair disheveled. I'd never seen him look so
unkempt. He actually seemed depressed. I motioned
for him to come in. When he did, I shut the door and
he followed me to the couches.
Angela Corbett
#55. In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.
John Corbett
#56. After I get comfortable, I kind of forget that we're even doing an interview and I say whatever comes to the mind.
John Corbett
#57. When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.
John Corbett
#60. I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.
John Corbett
#61. There is no universal language in the jungles; each species has its own language, and though the vocabulary of some is limited, as in the case of porcupines and vultures, the language of each species is understood by all the jungle-folk.
Jim Corbett
#64. Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit.
Mike Corbett
#65. She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn't there a box showing a terrified teen?
Natalie Corbett Sampson
#66. I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.
Scott Corbett
#67. I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump
Ronnie Corbett
#68. I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.
John Corbett
#69. When we find her, I'm still going to fight for her.-Emil-
Angela Corbett
#70. Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
John Corbett
#71. The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.
Jim Corbett
#72. Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should not have done, or left undone anything we should have done.It could only be attributed to sheer bad luck.
Jim Corbett
#73. The problem lies not with genre but with formula, which consists of seeing genre conventions as restrictions rather than mere guidelines, ends in themselves rather than possibilities.
David Corbett
#75. However much I doubted the man's ability to accomplish the task he had set himself, I could not help admiring his faith and his industry.
Jim Corbett
#76. Loneliness is just space expanding around you. Trust uncertainty. Sadness is life holding you in its hands and changing you. Make solitude your home.
Rachel Corbett
#77. I'll be a little bummed out if I make it to my 70s and didn't have a kid. I have two dogs and I know how much I love them. I would like to love and raise a kid.
John Corbett
#78. Reach for the stars because even if you fall there are always the clouds to catch you
Ella Corbett
#79. Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
James J. Corbett
#80. It is these big-hearted sons of the soil, no matter what their cast or creed, who will one day weld the contending factions into a composite whole, and make of India a great nation.
Jim Corbett
#81. This is significantly different from the notion of giving everyone the means of production. It consists of making the means of production mobilize its audience, a form of auto-stimulation.
John Corbett
#82. Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
David Corbett
#83. No mention is made in government records of man-eaters prior to the year 1905 and it would appear that until the advent of the Champawat tiger and the Panar leopard, man-eaters were unknown in Kumaon. When
Jim Corbett
#85. I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.
John Corbett
#88. No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.
Jim Corbett
#89. I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.
John Corbett
#90. When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
#91. If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
#92. I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.
John Corbett
#93. Healthy relationships require transformed hearts, not just transformed brains.
Steve Corbett
