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“In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.”
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“Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities”
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“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”
Source : "Peter's Almanac". Book by Laurence J. Peter. Entry for September 24, 1982.
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“It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.”
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“You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.”
Source : "Giving the vote to 16-year-olds is a question of democracy" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.
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“This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.”
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“I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.”
Source : "Ben Vereen Reflects on His Career Before Playing the Town Hall" by James Sims, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.
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“The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.”