Houseman Quotes

#1. I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.

Jennifer Grey

#2. Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married.

Groucho Marx

#3. Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

Vincente Minnelli

#4. I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

Illeana Douglas

#5. Why argue about decisions you're not powerful enough to make yourself?

John Houseman

#6. Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Anton Myrer

#7. A strong body makes the mind strong.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. I'm so sorry. I think I'm just tired."
The socially accepted excuse for being mental.

Lucy Ivison

#9. I'M HOPEFUL, because I know that while we still have race issues in America, we enjoy a much different normal than those of our parents and grandparents. I see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it's a beautiful thing.

Benjamin Watson

#10. There's this to say of love and breath
They give a man a taste for death.

A.E. Housman

#11. And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that

Emily Giffin

#12. When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

Sigmund Freud

#13. There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#14. They make money the old fashioned way ... they earn it.

John Houseman

#15. I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

Natalie Dormer

#16. My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

Regina King

#17. We are all part of the same story, each of us different chapters. We may not have the power to choose setting or plot, but we can choose what kind of character we want to be.

David Arnold

#18. The person who commits an action is the one responsible for it, not the people he commits the action upon.

Tamora Pierce

#19. The Alexander Technique has played an important and beneficial part in my life.

John Houseman

#20. All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.

Catharine Maria Sedgwick