type quotes

• To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. (Vladimir Nabokov) [type/power/power/art]
• We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. (Bertolt Brecht) [type/theatre/feelings/human]
• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. (Benjamin Disraeli) [memory/type/faith/quality]
• The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. (Isadora Duncan) [type/soul & body/spirit/school]
• Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. (Arthur Koestler) [activity/type/process]
• How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [type/being/tyranny/danger]
• The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. (Orson Welles) [type/type/process/reality]
• A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? (Oscar Wilde) [perfect/type/perfect/pleasure]
• Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. (Frank Zappa) [music/type]
• I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together. (Katie Holmes) [normal/type/food]
• I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing. (Jennifer Aniston) [type/type/men/thing]
• Also, you can get the type of bait you should use depending on the time of year. Colder is better for smallmouth [bass], and warmer is better for largemouth. Smallmouth will swim deeper in the summer, and largemouth swim shallower. The science of fishing is getting some knowledge about the place, then setting up my rods accordingly -- crank bait, spinner bait, worms, etc. (Andy Dick) [type/time/willpower/science]
• I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen. (Andy Garcia) [type/movie/care]
• Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. (Bela Lugosi) [type]
• It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role. (Bela Lugosi) [film/type/role]
• There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me. (Bela Lugosi) [vampire/type/school/type]
• I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship. (Ben Affleck) [type/feeling]
• I'm not the party type. Just to go to a party and talk acting all the time is stupid. (Bill Bixby) [type/time]
• I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership. (Blair Underwood) [career/film/type]
• I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies. (Casey Affleck) [type/thing]
• Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type. (Dean Cain) [character/type]
• As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. (Johnny Depp) [type/talent]
• That's the interesting thing about becoming a father. Suddenly you universally have something in common with other people. I can be sitting next to a very straight, humorless businessman or stockbroker type on an airplane and we'll just start talking about kids. And that conversation last three or four hours. (Johnny Depp) [thing/people/type/air travel]
• I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. (Nicolas Cage) [type]
• [Despite the hit to his ego, Damon took the role, eager for an opportunity to work with Gilliam.] He's definitely the type of man who is open to ideas, ... He also likes to gild the lily as much as possible. (Matt Damon) [ego/role/type/]
• I think down the road it's going to help us. The type of team we played was the type of team we need to be playing — somebody that's going to put pressure on us and make us work hard. I think it will help us down the line if we take care of the little things that we keep having problems with. (Cindy Williams) [think/type/team/type]
• The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending. (Ray Liotta) [type/movie]
• I've never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me. (Stephen Baldwin) [type/people/think]
• “I didn't want to do a Family Ties type show. It never really represented my outlook and my sense of humor. I'm at once very optimistic and very cynical, and on this show [Spin City] I can be that.” (Michael Fox) [family/type]
• “I know there's all this talk about my charisma deficit and I have to admit that I'm not a wild, in-your-face actor. It's not my nature to be flashy or extroverted and that's why I see it as a great challenge to me as an actor to be able to play against type and shake up people's perceptions of me.” (Tobey Maguire) [wild/nature/type]
• You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays. (Taye Diggs) [type]

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