Brett Somers quotes

“Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.”
-- Brett Somers

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“You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.”
-- Brett Somers

Source : "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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“I don't know a high C from a low C.”
-- Brett Somers

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“I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.”
-- Brett Somers

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

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“In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.”
-- Brett Somers

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“You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!”
-- Brett Somers

Source : "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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“My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!”
-- Brett Somers

Source : "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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“Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.”
-- Brett Somers

Source : "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153

“Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics

“There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.”

Source : "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.

“I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.”

“I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.”

“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.”

“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

“A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.”

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

“Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.”