Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world. — Taryn Manning
When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break. — Stephen Hawking
That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else. — Jason Sudeikis
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. — Glenn Gould
But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies. — Jason Biggs
Short Intermission Quotes
The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life. — Guy Debord
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. — John Selden
I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission. — Lady Gaga
Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around. — Grace Slick
Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission. — Evan Esar
Make your life a mission-not an intermission. — Arnold Glasgow
If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission. — John Lithgow
Make your life a mission - not an intermission. — Arnold H. Glasow
The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission. — Mason Cooley
Intermission Image Quotes
Interruption Quotes
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. — George Bernard Shaw
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers. — Aristotle
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence. — Jean-Paul Sartre
If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign. — Nick Hornby
Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence. — Blaise Pascal
There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that — Cillian Murphy
In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the space of six years at least , that you may learn all the parts and members of the art...drawing without intermission on holidays and work-days — Sayings
If a man has only correct doctrine to offer me, I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek the company of someone who has seen for himself how lovely is the face of Him who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Such a man can help me, and no one else can. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life. — Joseph Epstein
When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well. — George Shearing
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. — Samuel Johnson
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best. — Ben Jonson
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it. — John Selden
We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions. — Laurence Sterne
As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy. — Lily Rabe
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission. — Thomas Jefferson
And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear. — William Shakespeare
I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing! — Henry Miller
The theatrics of a concert hall are as much in the space of intermission and the space of arrival as when the concert starts. — Liz Diller
The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours. — James Mooney
In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions. — Joe Bob Briggs
A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also "second-acting" every Broadway show [walking in with the crowd after intermission]. I snuck in to see Grease with John Travolta in kind of a secondary part and Adrienne Barbeau playing Rizzo, into Pippin, hung out with Ben Vereen and Bob Fosse. It was an amazing time for a teenager. — David Copperfield
Too often in the theatre people can't wait for intermission to get some chocolate or something. But with Come Back, Little Sheba I just hope people leave feeling like they've spent a really good two-hours in that house with us. — Zoe Kazan
One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission. — W. H. Auden
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place. — Samuel Johnson
A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don't know how much they liked me that day. — Gillian Jacobs
The newer education put stress on culture ... Saturday mornings, the young were brushed and washed, forced into blue cheviot suits, and dragged to children's concerts to learn appreciation. They wriggled, squirmed, counted the light bulbs in the ceiling, dived under seats to gather ticket stubs, stampeded out at intermissions. The weakness of their bladders was astounding. — Zelda Popkin
I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it. — Lily Rabe
In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet. — George Antheil
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