Quotes About Discovery

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.

The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

I've become kind of a haven for people who like pop music, but that's not the only thing they like. They also like music in general and want to be able to expand their own horizons. They haven't completely given up on music and are willing to have somebody mediate new things that are happening in music to them.

If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.

The easiest thing is to create something no one has ever seen before. There's a reason no one's ever seen it - because someone tried it, and it didn't work in the real world.

I didn't really enter into the real world until I was probably at drama school.

The whole point of college is to find yourself, to figure out things before you go into the real world.

We've discovered the secret of life.

Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean's 'Vincent' come on at the end of an episode of 'The Simpsons.' You know when you hear something and you don't understand why you like it, you just do? That's how I felt. I just thought, 'I want to be able to write songs like that.'

I'm always fascinated by the 'who would you like to work with' question. I've never really had an answer; it only really comes as you work with them.

As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'

I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.

We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

I was always just like, 'Standups are making it up.' A lot of people have that myth about standup. And so it wasn't until I was in college for theater school in Boston that I realized I can actually start going to open mics and figuring this out.

Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.