Inventive Quotes

(on Judy Garland) In some of her films she showed talent which was very comic and touching. Touching because she played with a bright smile and a great spirit, while the situation was rather dramatic, even tragic perhaps. She had in fact a quality which can only be compared to Charlie Chaplin`s heartbreaking quality: always optimistic, always gay, always inventive, against poverty, against desperate situations -- and that`s when Judy is at her best.

The big comic performance is a very obvious thing to do. The bolder, more inventive thing sometimes is the subtler, understated performance with minute shades and variations. If you start to disrespect the character you`re playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it`s all technique. It`s like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it`s not going to touch you in any way.

On doing a "Star Trek" convention after 10 years: "One of the main reasons I`m here, if not the entire reason I`m here, is to celebrate Gene Roddenberry. He discovered me, in many ways, when I was a kid in Hollywood, and he put me in two different segments of the original "Star Trek" (1966), which were a total joy to do. I cannot tell you how inventive and how creative everybody was who worked on that show, from the actors, the makeup, the hair, the camera ... I will never forget it as long as I live" (2006).

(on working with Liza Minnelli on "New York, New York") After 15 minutes I realized that not only could she sing she could be one hell of an actress. She`s so malleable and inventive. And fun, even when things are hard.

(on Judy Garland) In some of her films she showed talent which was very comic and touching. Touching because she played with a bright smile and a great spirit, while the situation was rather dramatic, even tragic perhaps. She had in fact a quality which can only be compared to Charlie Chaplin`s heartbreaking quality: always optimistic, always gay, always inventive, against poverty, against desperate situations -- and that`s when Judy is at her best.

We are committed to promoting, supporting, and providing a base for real singers and inventive artists. Women Who Jam is a female driven movement that focuses on women who, create, produce, and perform quality music.

You start with your life experience and then you can become more inventive, but the human relationships always come from your own life experience.

(One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water`s surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.) They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way some days.

(One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water`s surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.) They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way some days.

It`s extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband`s he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b

“I thought, ‘Oh s**t. Here we go again!’ (laughing) This script was so inventive and had a real mystery, it was very poetic. In fact, some of it I found quite funny because when you describe, ‘a falling virgin lets the dying gasps of a soul out as he hits the ground,’ you think, ‘How can he possibly show that?’ And in some ways there is a suggestion as to the type of world and feel that you are coming into. It felt very classy and very dark and very difficult. I just thought, ‘This guy is fierce, this guy is ferocious. This guy is awesome and I want to try and be that guy.’”