A Quote by Noel Coward

You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.

Noel Coward

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Noel Coward
English - Playwright
December 16, 1899 - March 26, 1973

Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

Noel Coward

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

Noel Coward

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

Danny Bonaduce

I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

Alfred Lunt

Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but the pay packet on Friday and the booze-up last Saturday. Life's easy when you're a robot.

Alasdair Gray

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

Alfred Lunt

This is it for a winner, Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner, Move slide your rump, Just for a minute let's all do the bump, Bump, bump, bump yeah.

MC Hammer

Actors always ask their directors what their motivation is in this scene or that scene, so I've always had this joke where I ask the director what my motivation is too. As a stunt person your motivation is usually to fall over a bench or something.

Zoe Bell

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Spencer Tracy

My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would be allocated to cover bills.

Ian Rankin

Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.

Clive Swift

Here's a simple way you can engage your intuition. When you are about to say something and you're not sure if you want to say it, ask yourself, "What is my motivation?" When you check your motivation you engage non-physical guidance and you will not be alone in you assessment.

Gary Zukav

Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like, 'bababa bump bump babum ba babump bababa bump.'

Rakim

If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.

A. A. Milne

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.