Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Shaw

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist Robert Shaw.

Last updated on November 24, 2024.

Robert Archibald Shaw was an English actor, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Beginning his career in theatre, Shaw joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre after the Second World War and appeared in productions of Macbeth, Henry VIII, Cymbeline, and other Shakespeare plays. With the Old Vic company (1951–52), he continued primarily in Shakespearean roles. In 1959 he starred in a West End production of The Long and the Short and the Tall.

English - Novelist | August 9, 1927 - August 28, 1978

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There's no future in being poor.

Robert Shaw

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

Robert Shaw

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

Robert Shaw

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

Robert Shaw

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

Robert Shaw

The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.

Robert Shaw

When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen.

Robert Shaw

Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.

Robert Shaw

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

Robert Shaw

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

Robert Shaw

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

Robert Shaw

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Shaw

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