Sam Wanamaker Quotes

There are no national frontiers to learning.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

I went to drama school in Scotland.

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

People ask me all the time what it is about Australia that produces so many big stars. Honestly, I believe it is a combination of things. Our education standards are quite high, but our industry is very limited. Yet we're very aware of the industry - everyone goes to the theater, sees TV shows.

You get educated by traveling.

I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

Education is neither eastern nor western.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

I have studied at the school of the world.

I believe we have to bring Broadway a little Latino flair. We have to keep it alive.

I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

When I was growing up, I didn't know anything existed outside the borders of Buffalo.

We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex—in the streets.

… there are no backward peoples which are lacking in mechanical sense. Russians, Chinese, and the Indians both of India and the Americas all learn to read and write and operate machines just as well as your children and my children

Invest in arts, culture and people, and the big name companies will follow and bring with them well-paying jobs.

In college, I actually majored in Musical Theater. I was pursuing a BFA in Musical Theater.