Stephen Tobolowsky Quotes

#1. One of the biggest problems with having a dream come true is recognizing it when it arrives.

Stephen Tobolowsky

#2. The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.

Brian Tracy

#3. Terrified at Non Existence, for such they deemd the death of the body, Los his vegetable hands outstretch'd; his right hand branching out in fibrous Strength siez'd the Sun; his left hand like dark roots cover'd the Moon, and tore them down, cracking the heavens across from immense to immense.

William Blake

#4. She has the voice of God.Someone asked me what I liked about working on Glee - I get to hear Lea Michele sing - a lot .

Stephen Tobolowsky

#5. For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through the photographs and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame ... it's the last thought in the process.

Sophie Calle

#6. I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

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#7. Well, that's the great thing about indie film, in general. If it's not subject to the constraints of too much pressure from the studio or marketing, and all of that, you get to actually present fuller characters and you get to have the dark side of the characters. That's usually what gets cut out.

Ty Burrell

#8. The only scenes I can stand in any of the Star Wars films are the quiet scenes in the second one, The Empire Strikes Back. Or rather, it used to be the second one, before the fourth one became the first one, thus making the second one the third one.

Nick Hornby

#9. I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

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#10. Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Stephen Tobolowsky

#11. What passes for cookery in England is an abomination.

Virginia Woolf

#12. Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

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#13. When I was a little kid, I told stories.

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#14. My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

Patti Smith

#15. Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

Stephen Tobolowsky

#16. We'd slipped beyond the real world and hovered where darkness and light made love to create the colors in the universe.

Adrienne Wilder

#17. The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly.

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#18. I've got more clothes than my wife.

Paul Burrell

#19. A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.

Dennis Miller

#20. There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness.

Margaret E. Barber

#21. malachim, or messengers. Christianity has defined these messengers as what we know as angels. The more ancient interpretation in Judaism is that the malachim could be anything. They could be heavenly spirits. Or not. They could come in the form of ordinary people, donkeys, a flame, or even a breeze.

Stephen Tobolowsky

#22. Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

Stephen Tobolowsky

#23. I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

Stephen Tobolowsky

#24. Before Ben-Yehuda ... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did.

Cecil Roth

#25. On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'

Stephen Tobolowsky

#26. I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

Stephen Tobolowsky