My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.
Will Kemp
If I continue to make films about New York, they will probably be set in the past. The `new` New York I don`t know much about. It`s not that I`m against contemporary film. I`m open to it in general, but I find the new colours of the city, the new Times Sq...
Martin Scorsese
[On contemporary movies] People watch movies - and it`s vague ideas, it`s vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they`re not supposed to think, basically, and they don`t. And then it`s like,...
Crispin Glover
I don`t like to intellectualize about my acting. I don`t sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. I don`t worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. The main thing in acting is h...
Genevieve Bujold
[on the cancellation of "The Courtship of Eddie`s Father" (1969)] I cannot tell you how disappointed I was. I wanted that series to go on to the point when it came to the teenage stage and we could deal with these problems in an honest contemporary way. B...
Bill Bixby
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles. Meanwhile, we have Africans and African-Americans, contemporary men, with great ...
Djimon Hounsou
I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning.
Christopher Lee
I was holding out for a picture I could take my grandchildren to see, something exciting and contemporary without senseless violence. (On her role in Airport 1975 (1974))
Gloria Swanson
We`re all Christ and we`re all Hitler. We are trying to make Christ`s message contemporary. We want Christ to win. What would he have done if he had advertisements, T.V., records, films and newspapers? The miracle today is communication. So Let`s use it.
John Lennon
I`ve been dubbed the man most responsible for the dumbing of America, so obviously I don`t put much stock into thoughts like (the theme of the `dumbing down` of contemporary comedy). People love to laugh, and most people can find humor in just about anyth...
Jim Carrey
For my audition, I did a monologue from one of my plays. I couldn`t find anything contemporary that they wouldn`t have seen hundreds of times before. I didn`t know what I was doing, but it worked. - On his Juilliard audition.
Val Kilmer
[on one of his most famous characterizations, in The Karate Kid (1984)] Over the years, kids have come up to me in places like supermarkets, and hit me and said things like, "You hurt Ralph [Ralph Macchio]!" It makes me feel like the Darth Vader of the co...
Martin Kove
There`s a lot of contemporary actresses I admire, but there`s practically no one who`s made a color movie whose career I`d want ... I don`t feel very modern at all.
Rachel Weisz
I`m desperate to find a contemporary film with a character that`s interesting, dignified and complex.I struggle to find those parts, and when I do, they usually go to other actresses.
Romola Garai
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don`t think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
Allison Stewart
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott
What I wanted to do was similar to what I did with [the 2003 soundtrack for] `The Fighting Temptations,` ... That was both a gospel album and a contemporary album. Here we have old and young: an adult AC record as well as a rhythmic record.
Matthew Knowles
Well, I`m not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we ac...
David Dinkins
We`re looking for more mysteries, including some fairly contemporary mysteries. So there may be some not so cold cases that we`re investigating.
John Lutz
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner`s contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.
Julie Taymor
We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we`re not. Because too often we sound like people who just don`t like contemporary Britain.
Alex Bawek
We look at some similar areas in such a completely different way. We`re a comedy, we`re very contemporary. We`re very much about the impact of celebrity and fame on an individual in today`s world.
Ron Howard
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
Christo
Viewers who tune in this season will see a dynamic show with polish and professionalism, dedicated to revealing important truths about spirituality in contemporary Canadian society.
Arthur Baer
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
George Crumb
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.
Will Kemp
