#classic

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea. ↗

— Steve Martin

#americanized #anyone #ask #classic #could

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#classical #classical music #concrete #contrast #expressed

We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers. ↗

— Otto Schily

#apply #classic #clearly #criminals #criteria

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working. ↗

— Peter Sellers

#classic example #example #funny #humorists #i

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#actor #because #business #classically #go

Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#classically #herself #inspired #julie #julie andrews

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#funeral #funny #humor #funny

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre. ↗

— Frances McDormand

#always #been #classical #debt #depression

I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#love #age

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#classicism #courage #greatness #greece #soul