Seated Quotes

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song `With or Without You.` You just don`t stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask and when you do you`re a human being, not just an actor. After all, I`m Catherine the person first. You share that. There`s a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It`s healthy. That`s what acting is all about. I love the theater, but I realized a few years ago that there are only a couple of hundred people seated in the theater, maybe a couple of thousand. I would rather do it in a big way. A camera is right there to capture it forever. If you`re going to give yourself away, I would rather do it for millions and have it available to people on video for the rest of their lives

(Sunday night`s show starts with Larry noticing that his pants bunch up when seated.) Five inches, ... I got a tent.

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

(On meeting Pope John Paul II at the White House in 1978) "He impressed me more than any other man I`ve ever met, and I`ve met a lot. My wife and I happened to be seated on one of the aisles, and the Pope came right down and he saw me and smiled. The smile was genuine, not a politician smile, the practiced smile. He shook hands with me and went on. And then (US President Jimmy Carter) said, `Hello, Gregory, what are you doing here?` and I said, `Well, Mr. President, you invited me.` He said, `Just a minute` - and damned if he didn`t run after the Pope, grabbing him by the arm and pulled him back. He said, `Your Excellency, this is one of our best-known, most-beloved American film actors.` And he looked at me, ah! There was a glimmer as if somehow he must have seen me in a movie. His eyes widened and he took me in his arms. And he sort of grabbed me by the elbow and said, `God bless you, Gregory. God bless you in your mission.` And he went on."

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song `With or Without You.` You just don`t stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask and when you do you`re a human being, not just an actor. After all, I`m Catherine the person first. You share that. There`s a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It`s healthy. That`s what acting is all about. I love the theater, but I realized a few years ago that there are only a couple of hundred people seated in the theater, maybe a couple of thousand. I would rather do it in a big way. A camera is right there to capture it forever. If you`re going to give yourself away, I would rather do it for millions and have it available to people on video for the rest of their lives.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

I just finished doing a large Holocaust piece, a seated figure over seven feet tall. It`s gigantic. It`s going to Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Bush`s faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

We couldn`t get furniture delivery until Saturday, so now no one has a place to work, ... I think that, by Wednesday, we`re going to have everybody seated at a desk with a phone and ready to roll.

It`s probably the shortest seated board (appointment) that anybody ever had, but that`s OK.

We`ll have kids pretend they`re giants. Then, they`ll pretend they`re running - while they`re still seated on the floor - and, as the music slows down, they`ll get tired until they have to fall down exhausted.

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death