Top 27 Gabler Quotes
#1. Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.
Eleanora Duse
#2. A learner rather"
Stephen's answer to Deasy who says "You were not born to be a teacher, I think. Perhaps I am wrong." (Episode 2, line 403 in the Gabler edition)
James Joyce
#3. What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?
Jennifer Ehle
#4. 'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.
Kate Burton
#5. I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
Cate Blanchett
#6. There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?
Eve Best
#7. As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!
Sophie Thompson
#8. If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
Eve Best
#9. Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibsen was writing about a deep ambivalence that many women feel about domesticity. I think about myself and friends of mine - we have some of Hedda's qualities and traits.
Annette Bening
#10. My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
Talulah Riley
#11. I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.
Sophie Thompson
#12. My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.
Samantha Bond
#13. This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death.
Sean Gabler
#14. We prefer knowing to thinking, because knowing has more immediate value.
Neal Gabler
#15. he had become the patriarch of horseflesh.
Neal Gabler
#16. I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. ...the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches of show business, where the overriding objective is getting and satisfying an audience.
Neal Gabler
#18. He had passed beyond the afflictions of this world. Walt Disney had at last attained perfection.
Neal Gabler
#19. ...because television had become the primary means through which people appropriated the world, it promulgated an epistemology in which all information, whatever the source, was forced to become entertainment.
Neal Gabler
#20. Look, the thing that's going to make Disneyland unique and different,' he insisted, 'is the detail. If we loose the detail, we loose it all.
Neal Gabler
#21. More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive
Neal Gabler
#22. You belong with us," he said quietly. "Nothing's going to change that.
Nora Roberts
#23. Sex is the expression of intimacy, touching and personalized care that takes friendship another step further. There is a trinity of sex, spirituality and friendship which all need to be present.
Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
#24. Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes.
Neal Gabler
#25. Yet all of these accumulated contributions paled before a larger one: he demonstrated how one could assert one's will on the world at the very time when everything seemed to be growing beyond control and beyond comprehension.
Neal Gabler
#26. Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.
Scott Turow
