ByQuotes

Dakin Matthews Quotes

Powerful Dakin Matthews for Daily Growth

Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.

- Dakin Matthews

Mankind, Hypocrisy, Common, Lust

Often, directors toss playwrights out of rehearsals.

- Dakin Matthews

Directors, Playwrights, Rehearsals

I'm here in Hollywood to do film and television and make enough money to get my kids through college.

- Dakin Matthews

College, Through, Here, Enough Money

You can't argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when there are people starving? Of course, that's true. But just because you can't, theoretically, defend the arts, or make a sensible argument for their preservation, doesn't mean they're not important.

- Dakin Matthews

Argument, Prove, Starving, Theoretically

I'm making my Broadway musical debut at the age of 73 - it's a kind of interesting career arc.

- Dakin Matthews

Career, Making, Broadway, Arc

I'm an OK singer.

- Dakin Matthews

Singer, OK

I'm not saying that theatre is a doomed profession, but if a person wants to stay in it very long, they'd better develop theatre skills beyond just acting.

- Dakin Matthews

Develop, Profession, Very, Doomed

I didn't ever intend to or want to be an actor. I'm not one of those people of whom they say, 'If you can't live without it, that's the only reason you should be an actor.' It was kind of a sideline that became my whole life.

- Dakin Matthews

Reason, Became, Whole, Sideline

I think there's something about a sylvan setting; you want grass and nature with outdoor Shakespeare.

- Dakin Matthews

Nature, Think, I Think, Outdoor

I actually only speak English and Latin. Medieval philosophy was my major, so we pretty much had to study in Latin.

- Dakin Matthews

Study, Pretty, Medieval, Latin

Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.

- Dakin Matthews

Work, Result, Hamlet, Shakespeare

If an L.A. actor is a star or a good face, and they want to get cred by doing a serious Shakespeare play, they will come to New York first.

- Dakin Matthews

Play, Doing, New, Shakespeare

I'm a workaholic, and I know it. And I don't care to deal with it.

- Dakin Matthews

Care, Know, Deal, Workaholic

I sort of got fooled into acting, actually. I never intended to do it.

- Dakin Matthews

Never, Actually, Intended, Fooled

'School for Wives' is Moliere's first step toward grand comedy, but he still has one foot in commedia.

- Dakin Matthews

Comedy, Grand, Still, Wives

Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day.

- Dakin Matthews

Art, Theater, Perform, For The People

I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.

- Dakin Matthews

Culture, Important, Almost, Indefensible

If I were on 'Survivor,' I might be the first off the island.

- Dakin Matthews

Island, Might, Were, Survivor

If you're searching for quotes on a different topic, feel free to browse our Topics page or explore a diverse collection of quotes from various Authors to find inspiration.