Todd Newton quotes

“Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation.”
-- Todd Newton

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“I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up.”
-- Todd Newton

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“Working on television is therapeutic to me. When that camera comes on all negativity vanishes. I forget about the fight I had with my neighbor. I forget about the pain in my left foot. I forget about my dog dying. Performing, for me, is an emotional cure all.”
-- Todd Newton

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“As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.”

Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"

“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."”

“Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”

“I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.”

Source : "Obsessed: China" by Abigail Washburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

“Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”

Source : "Character: Albert Collins". "Adventures in Babysitting", www.imdb.com. 1987.

“There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.”

“My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.”

“Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.”

“Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.”