Ivanek Zeljko Quotes

#1. It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

Zeljko Ivanek

#2. When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.

Zeljko Ivanek

#3. I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

Andy Rooney

#4. The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance

Amelia Bloomer

#5. Oh it's fantastic because I get to whip people like David into shape and tell them to go get me coffee. Kidding - okay.

Debra Messing

#6. After a moment, he turned sharply to me. 'Are you quite all right?'
'Yes, perfectly. Why do you ask?'
'Because I have just called you contrary and you did not bother to contradict me. I thought you might be ill.

Deanna Raybourn

#7. I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.

Zeljko Ivanek

#8. I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.

Zeljko Ivanek

#9. I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.

Zeljko Ivanek

#10. I claimed myself and remade my life.

Dorothy Allison

#11. Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting around, not working. I'm sure that'll happen, too.

Zeljko Ivanek

#12. I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.

Zeljko Ivanek

#13. Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land, ... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

Zeljko Ivanek

#15. Is to be in love with blue, then, to be in love with a disturbance? Or is the love itself the disturbance? And what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionally incapable of loving you back?

Maggie Nelson

#16. The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.

Zeljko Ivanek

#17. What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

Zeljko Ivanek

#18. In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be.

Zeljko Ivanek

#19. Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.

Zeljko Ivanek

#20. I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.

Zeljko Ivanek

#21. Is human love the growth of the human will ?

Ellen Key

#22. Only humans can cry tears.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#23. Real friends don't say goodbye.

Anonymous

#24. I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

Alan Ball