Arthur Lowe quotes

Arthur Lowe quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.”
-- Arthur Lowe

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”
“Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.”
“Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."”
“You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.”
“God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.”
“In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.”
“I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.”
“I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.”

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