Ryne Sandberg Quotes

When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

I'd love to do some new plays.

I'm doing my best whether it's for a hundred-copy print run or for a hundred thousand.

Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Yes, I am very prolific.

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes.

There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

There is always room at the top but to arrive there and to stay there requires exceptional industry, exceptional qualifications and the courage to think along original lines.

One lesson learned is you've got to finish the scenario with excellence. You just cannot stop. You have to complete this, and I think that's where Apple has taught us all what experience excellence means in the creation of categories.

As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.

Hollywood has got technology, method, and discipline.

We didn't want to just be a cover group, we wanted to do our music, to be a band. Once we were able to do it, it was a little scary, but it was also something inspiring - something new, fresh for us to get into. It was amazing to see the reaction of our fans.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.