Booth, Daniel - Showcase of the professional actor, including credits and an account of some of his most recent productions.
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov B A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber B
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) B "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun B
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt B As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. B
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) B Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) B
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie B To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) B
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald B Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. B
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) B Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca B
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man and wife make one fool. "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had B You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine B
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson B Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian B
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson B "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson B
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) B Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland B
