Span Quotes

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An actor must interpret life and, in order to do so, must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art.

- James Dean

"I also think people like myself have the attention span of a gnat!"

- Keith Urban

About Rekha: "Rekha is very inspiring. It is not necessarily relative to just one performance, but her entire career, the span of characters that she has essayed, the performances that she has delivered itself is extremely inspiring. I am inspired by her performance. But I cannot ape her." (October 2006)

- Aishwarya Rai

About her long career in entertainment: "This is my tenth year now, so things have changed within this span of time - so drastically that when I look at the work done when I just joined, it`s like, "Oh my God!" So much has changed in these ten years. You get to see how you`re part of the process of change within the Indian film industry. That`s all positive, that`s all a good sign." (Forbes Magazine, August 25th 2005)

- Aishwarya Rai

I thought, hopefully this will be better than other HBO specials, and I`ll get whatever rewards come with that. Maybe somebody will want me to do a sitcom - if I`m lucky. Next thing they were talking about it on C-Span, and I`m like, Huh? My only goal was to do a show that was good enough that when I played a club, I wouldn`t have to promote it on radio. - on the success of Chris Rock: Bring the Pain (1996) (TV)

- Chris Rock

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

- Corey Feldman

It hasn`t been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

- Edward Furlong

I think we all had that as a concern. That monster there is like a producer`s dream, isn`t it? Any one of us could get bumped off at any time and we`re all aware of it. It keeps you on your toes. - on the potential short life-span of characters on "Lost"

- Naveen Andrews

Robert Redford on Newman: "He has the attention span of a bolt of lightning."

- Paul Newman

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that`s probably, if I have a gift, that`s probably the best gift that`s given me. (2007)

- Paul Newman

Since I started out very young, I definitely knew where he was coming from, and I knew his attention span was probably a lot shorter than us adults. I had to play with that and work with that, but he really did give a beautiful performance.

- Tiffani Thiessen

<span class="grey">(in 2007)span> The Internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead, they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn`t bode well for long-term artistic vision. It`s just a means to an end. We`re talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that`s not going to happen with people blogging on the Internet. I mean, get out there - communicate. Hopefully the next movement in music will tear down the Internet. Let`s get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home and blogging. I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole Internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span. There`s too much technology available. I`m sure, as far as music goes, it would be much more interesting than it is today.

- Elton John

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that`s all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there`s a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I`ll remember, `Oh, there`s the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.`

- Natascha McElhone

I have a short attention span.

- Tony Scott

Studies have shown that daily doses of hydroxyurea decrease the number of painful crises a person may experience and lengthen their life span as well,

- Dorothy Moore

The roads just break apart through the years. It was around 18 years ago Country Road was paved. The life span for a road is 10 years, so we are past due.

- Dan Green

If anyone has the attention span of a crazed amoeba, they should enjoy all of these episodes!

- Gary Owens

Plus the public`s attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn`t strike while the iron is hot... well it`s not like people will forget you, but they just won`t care anymore.

- Brian Boitano

The kids` attention span is limited anyway. They`re happy to see a little, move on, come back to the ship, hang out with the friends they`ve made and eat American food for dinner.

- David Fowler

People think all I am is Mr. Walton, ... I`ve done books and movies and radio. My life has covered the entire span of commercial TV.

- Earl Hamner

It`s not unusual for us to change a game or start a new one. Typically, every game has a life span, and you have what we call game fatigue. We thought it was a good time for a new game that looks and plays differently.

- Tom Hayes

Typically, every game has a life span, and you have what we call game fatigue. We thought it was a good time for a new game that looks and plays differently.

- Tom Hayes

When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?

- John Ball

When you extend life span, that`s really something. That`s hard to do.

- George Martin

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

- Peter Drucker

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

- Tim Murphy

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

- Alan Walters

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

- Alvaro Cifuentes

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life`s cycle, not as a first response.

- Alyaksandr Milinkevich

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

- Amit Singh

Time is tight in a two- to three-year span, not a two- to three-month span.

- Anthony Rougier

Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span.

- Ayesha Siddiqa

You`ll get name recognition. The proceedings will no doubt be on C-SPAN. That doesn`t strike me as being a foolish expenditure of money.

- Barbara Keshen

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

- Henry Louis Mencken

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span

- Karl Kraus