Top 68 Quotes About Colman
#1. Oh, London is a fine town,
A very famous city,
Where all the streets are paved with gold,
And all the maidens pretty,
--G. Colman (the Younger)
Mark Williams
#2. As content strategist Jonathon Colman, who works for Facebook, told me: "Start with empathy. Continue with utility. Improve with analysis. Optimize with love.
Ann Handley
#3. I suppose they call me a woman's director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
George Cukor
#4. When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you're like, 'Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.' That's what I'm doing. I'm playing among the flowers.
Colman Domingo
#5. I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!
Olivia Colman
#7. I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.
Lucy N. Colman
#8. Doing multiple character work is athletic in every way - vocally, physically, spiritually, and mentally. With a show like 'Passing Strange,' I usually lose about 12 pounds.
Colman Domingo
#9. True worship can only take place when we agree to God sitting not only on His throne in the center of the universe, but on the throne that stands in the center of our heart.
Robert Colman
#10. And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.
George Colman
#12. A man usually falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer.
Ronald Colman
#13. She had a distressing sense of life's rushing by before she had a chance to fully make up her mind in which direction she wanted to go.
Hila Colman
#14. Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt
Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on
The troubled waters of a lake,
'Twill form in circles round succeeding round;
Each wider than the first.
George Colman The Elder
#15. Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.
Colman McCarthy
#16. Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.
Colman Domingo
#19. I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
Olivia Colman
#20. She felt tears dripping down her cheeks, and she wondered if anyone would ever miss her if she simply sat here, drinking coffee for days and days, years and years.
Hila Colman
#21. I recently did a play, Athol Fugard's 'Coming Home' at Long Wharf Theatre, where I played one character throughout - I sat at a table and didn't have any costume changes. Following one character's arc from beginning to end is a whole different mindset.
Colman Domingo
#22. In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
Olivia Colman
#23. It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.
Colman McCarthy
#24. I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
Olivia Colman
#25. Dalai Lama when he tells us, "Tibetans have a saying: If bad news comes, you listen here (points to the right ear) and let it out here (points to the left ear).
Dina Colman
#27. Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
Olivia Colman
#28. Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.
Colman McCarthy
#29. Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.
Colman McCarthy
#30. Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.
Colman Domingo
#31. If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
Olivia Colman
#32. A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.
Ronald Colman
#33. The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.
Colman McCarthy
#34. Unless we teach our children peace, somebody
else will teach them violence.
Colman McCarthy
#35. I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
Olivia Colman
#36. I was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.
Colman Domingo
#37. The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
Olivia Colman
#38. The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence. That's what the schools should be doing.
Colman McCarthy
#39. I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
Olivia Colman
#40. I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.
Colman Domingo
#41. From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art.
Colman Domingo
#43. My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.
Colman Domingo
#44. If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
Olivia Colman
#46. Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
Colman McCarthy
#47. My brothers and sister and me grew up making fun of each other, the way we'd speak or move. When we get together, everyone's funny, quick, loud, and speaks on top of each other. It was like a great comedy school; nothing is precious.
Colman Domingo
#48. I missed my entrance in a production of 'Blade to the Heat' at Thick Description in San Francisco. I came into the scene very late and hugged the punching bag. I had no idea what to do! Unfortunately, that mishap was recorded for archives at UC Berkeley. It goes down in history.
Colman Domingo
#49. I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
Olivia Colman
#50. Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.
Colman McCarthy
#51. If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?
Colman McCarthy
#52. Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Colman McCarthy
#53. I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.
Colman Domingo
#54. I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
Olivia Colman
#56. I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.
Colman Domingo
#57. You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.
Olivia Colman
#58. My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.
Colman Domingo
#59. This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.
Olivia Colman
#60. Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?
Colman McCarthy
#61. Don't you ever want to see what's on the other side of the hill?
Ronald Colman
#62. Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.
Colman McCarthy
#63. Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.
George Colman
#64. I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.
Paul Colman
#65. Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.
Colman McCarthy
#66. Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.
Colman McCarthy
#67. I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but ... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.
Olivia Colman
#68. I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'
Colman Domingo
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