Raz N Quotes

#1. A director once said, when I was complaining about something or other, "I agree, it is terrible. The worst thing you can do to an actor is give him a job." That shut me up and broke off a big hunk of my actor's cynical armor.

Jeff Raz

#2. they have commandos and astronauts who know this kind of thing cold." "But Raz, you are educable, you can learn 'this kind of thing,' if by that you mean how to maneuver an S2-35B and how to assemble a Cold Black Mirror. You've spent your whole life, ever since you were Collected, becoming educable.

Neal Stephenson

#3. Never give up.Never give up on anything.
Never stop trying. It better to try and fail than never trying. All the experiences are necessary. It will prepare you for the great success which comes unexpected.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. I ripped his spine straight out from him and watched as Raz folded into himself like crumpled paper.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#5. No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

Joe Haldeman

#6. When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.

Jeff Raz

#7. You've really helped him a lot."

Samsara shrugged. "It's mostly Raz's insight. I just nudge him a little occasionally."

"Which is what a good teacher does.

Amy Thomson

#8. I feel apart from everything and a part of everything.

Tim Bowler

#9. For an acrobat, the acting concepts of 'risk', 'a life or death situation' and 'trusting your partner' are visceral. If an actor loses focus, the scene dies; if an acrobat loses focus, their partner might die.

Jeff Raz

#10. As sick as it sounds, a reality show might help, actually. At least then people could get the truth.

Lindsay Lohan

#11. The moment when I can see a student's block, name the challenge and watch them become fuller and more dynamic in front of their colleagues' eyes is as rich a moment in a boardroom as it is in a ring.

Jeff Raz

#12. Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

Thomas Browne

#13. One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.

Matthew Arnold

#14. The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Judith Martin

#15. The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.

Jeff Raz

#16. A broken heart is a whole heart. A leaning ladder is a straight ladder.

Simcha Raz

#17. It takes about 6 hours of practice a day for quite a few years to become a professional juggler. I started when I was 14 and that discipline has helped me immensely as a performer.

Jeff Raz