Quotes About Discovery

The first time I stepped on stage in the local theatre I knew what I needed to do - I knew I had found the right place to be.

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.

I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

Growing up, I started to realize I was surrounded by people who were passionately alive. Seventh Street felt raw, but I found it incredibly theatrical.

One finds limits by pushing them.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.

I never have a clear goal or a theme when it comes to writing an album.

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Secrets are very intriguing - I always think that's an interesting theme.

When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

All of the Flying Lotus records are exploring similar themes: These questions in my mind about what's next and what's beyond.

Oregon, because

Our close connections aren't always planned. They grow. Sometimes they surprise you. Look at us.