Carnegie Quotes - Page 2

• I actually met one of my business partners [Neal Dodson] at the Governor's School summer program, so we've known each other since we were 15 and 16 years old, and we both ended up at Carnegie Mellon together. He started working for a producer out of school after a few years, and then we started the company together.

  Zachary Quinto

  Summer, School, Years

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• I remember having to hit a mark and having no idea how to do it, real childlike stuff, because Carnegie Mellon didn't do an extensive job preparing us for film and television. It was very much a theater program. That was my first job. It was cool. I was glad it was.

  Zachary Quinto

  Jobs, Real, Ideas

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• My first job was a show called The Others. I had, like, three lines. Julianne Nicholson was in it, and Gabriel [Macht]. I remember Gabriel wasn't there the day I was, but he sent a note, because he went to Carnegie Mellon as well, so we knew each other a little bit through that, and he was so sweet and generous. It was meant to be a recurring role that would evolve on the show, but the show only lasted a little while and I ended up only doing that one episode.

  Zachary Quinto

  Sweet, Jobs, Gabriel

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• I went to high school directly across the street from Carnegie Mellon, actually, and I knew people that were a couple of years older than me that went there. I was able to see shows in the drama department, and hang out there little bit, and it just felt like a natural progression. It was at the top of my list.

  Zachary Quinto

  Couple, Drama, School

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.

  Gena Rowlands

  Art, Dramatic, Exciting

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• Long John would sometimes hold his interviews in the Carnegie Delicatessen, which is the most famous delicatessen in New York up by Carnegie. Let's see, 57th Street, you're down to like 50th Street and 7th Avenue... You'd go in there and everybody would be eating a heart attack on a plate, pastrami, malts, that kind of stuff. But it literally was the place where Woody Allen would go.

  Paul Laffoley

  New York, Heart, Long

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they take it in college, they still don't pass it. So the Carnegie Foundation got together and created two accelerated courses that focus on real-world applications of numbers like for health, for civics, for personal finance - concepts that you and I use every single day.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Real, School, Math

  "Some Educators Question If Advanced Math Should Be Required". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. March 3, 2016.

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• Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful. I remember going in there and seeing the ballerinas trotting in there like they were prize horses, with their hair, their sunglasses. Really amazing. They were all White Russians. This is where [Leon] Theremin met a lot of people, and where the KGB eventually picked him up.

  Paul Laffoley

  Horse, Kgb, White

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ...what a total thrill.

  Karen Mason

  Thrill, Jazz, Made

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Now what's important is that they have an attitude. Everybody has a look, but not everybody has cultivated what their stage persona is. And so when you're dealing with actors, it just makes it more difficult, because you have to help them come up with one. You know, Johnny Depp has no Johnny Depp character when he's onstage. You haven't seen An Evening With Johnny Depp at Carnegie Hall.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Attitude, Character, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.

  Bill Burr

  Book, Rocks, Looks

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• On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Artist, Tchaikovsky, Feet

  Leonard Slatkin (2017). “Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry”, p.199, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.

  Alan King

  Practice, Made, Halls

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• The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. Andrew Carnegie of the energetic rich, aggressive real estate operators, corporate acquirers, oil drillers, etc. have their fortunes disappear.

  Warren Buffett

  Real, Rap, Men

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• I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

  Bill Peterson

  Speech, Remember, Used

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• As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

  Eric Alterman

  Jobs, Parent, Example

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• One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’

  Eli Broad

  Giving, Wealth, Shame

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• An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

  Oscar Levant

  Wise, Halls, Epigrams

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)

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• In the 1920s, everyone wanted to be a celebrity. Everyone wanted to be like Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh. ... Businessmen, in particular, in the '20s really believed that to be a success, an entrepreneur needed to have a personality, a sense that you were a success. That's why I think Capone dressed the way he did. And that's why he entertained the press — because he wanted to be perceived as a successful American. Dale Carnegie ... would later cite Capone as a model for creating the public image. Obviously, it went bad in many ways for Capone, but that's the image he was going for.

  Jonathan Eig

  Successful, Thinking, Creating

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• Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Funny, Friendship, Dog

  Ernest Thompson Seton (1905). “Animal Heroes”

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• I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government - I'd give it all up for one erection.

  Groucho Marx

  Sex, Awards, Government

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• Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.

  Marty Liquori

  Running, Rocks, Track

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• I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read. I would go into the Savannah Public Libraries in the stacks and see all of the newspapers from all over the country. Did I dream that I would be on the Supreme Court? No. But I dreamt that there was a world out there that was worth pursuing.

  Clarence Thomas

  Dream, Country, Library

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• Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.

  Harold C. Schonberg

  Music, Night, Lasts

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• A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Helping Others, Men, Generosity

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