Zeffirelli's Quotes

#1. There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow expect cinema to provide us with meaning, to console us. But that's not the purpose of art.

Peter Greenaway

#2. Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part ... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

Catherine Keener

#3. You don't know me."
"I know you're not used to people telling you no."
"Never more than once.

Shawn Wickersheim

#4. Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury.

Robin Marantz Henig

#5. We must remember to enjoy ourselves.

Matt Roper

#6. Falling in love is very easy, but staying in love is very difficult.

Debasish Mridha

#7. To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

Nicolas Chamfort

#9. Fear is the chain that wraps around a free man's leg.

Todd Stocker

#10. We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then it doesn't matter. We might become a philanthropic NGO but we wouldn't be the Church, the Bride of the Lord.

Pope Francis

#11. I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

Franco Zeffirelli

#12. Real thick strings - your hands start to get fatigued. As much as you practice, and as much experience as you have, and as long as you've been playing, there is a fatigue point during the show, as with anything that's physical. So I wanted to basically pace myself better.

John Petrucci

#13. All the problems of the world are caused by people who do not listen.

Franco Zeffirelli

#14. There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Kris Kristofferson

#15. When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. Humility is my best friend, I've always valued it above all other spiritual qualities.

Frederick Lenz