My father didn’t do a lot of direct education. My mother was the direct educator. She would put on these movies on American Movie Classics when we got cable, after my parents got divorced, which took like four or five years.
I present classics in an unfamiliar way or unfamiliar ingredients and preparations in a classical way.
My goal for children’s books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book that every kid would end up reading at some point in their life because influencing kids in a positive way at such a young age is really cool.
Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
Like every actor I too have some ‘classics’ in the closet, but I am not keen on adding to that collection.
I went to the Sorbonne in Paris for two years and read all the classics by authors like Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant. I was supposed to read them in French but I cheated and used the English versions instead.
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
Now that I’m taking some time off from school, I’ve been reading a lot to make sure I don’t forget everything. It’s mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the ’40s and ’50s.
Katherine Parkinson has got a classics degree from Cambridge yet is an idiot – in the best possible way.
I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. And I do think that not seeing his canon of classics is a bit criminal or clueless.
My first job ever, I was 14 years old – I was working at this mom-and-pop video store, and they basically paid me by allowing me to take home as many movies as I wanted, and that’s how I started watching all the classics and really getting into it.
I love ‘Jungle Book’ and all the classics growing up, but what I learned about this is that these Disney films are basically classic fables that have been told for thousands of years.
You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated – I mean that I was just vilified for – are now looked at as classics.
I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics… No television, either. If we wanted entertainment, we hung around the fish shop.
I don’t repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I’d rather surprise people.
My songs are classics.
I believe in classics. I like keeping it simple, whether its colours, cuts, or the outfits I wear.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I think it’s really important to remake things. If you never remake the classics, no one would know Shakespeare.
One of the reasons we had our reunion tours in the ’90s was the unexpectedness of how the music had gone, that these songs we’d recorded should have somehow become timeless classics.
I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn’t only the toff, upper-class subject it’s often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.
I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can’t go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators.
My mom was one of the original designers for Coach in the eighties, and she designed some classics, including the City Bag. It’s the only bag I use!
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well – you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times – ‘War and Peace,’ ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’ – all those were really important to me.
I was raised on the classics – Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and others.
My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they’re the best songs ever.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of stories, and they give us unforgettable movies with heart and depth and the resonance of classics.
The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.
Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.
Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
I was about 12 when I first encountered ‘The Moonstone’ – or a Classics Illustrated version of it – digging through an old trunk in my grandfather’s house on a rainy Bengali afternoon.
I started taking acting classes when I was 14. That’s when I knew I wanted to try it professionally. Before that, I watched movies, always, but I didn’t think it was a real job. I watched Turner Classic Movies with my parents. I’ve always loved the old classics.
I’m sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.
I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they’re timeless.
My ideal beach house has bookshelves full of paperbacks that can tolerate a little sand, a DVD library that includes some Disney classics for the little ones, board games, and jigsaw puzzles. At least one big flatscreen television is a must.
Periodically, I return to the classics for inspiration and refreshment.
I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don’t really exist in cinema now. The only person who’s really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier.
The films Sony Pictures Classics has distributed throughout the years have been of great inspiration to me. I’m very excited to find such a great home for ‘The Rider.’
Music critics think of lyrics first and don’t consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that’s why they become classics.
We were younger. And it’s basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could’ve done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.
Darling, when you’re as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
There’s room for Spike Lee’s movies; there’s room for Tyler Perry’s movies. There’s room for classics with an all black cast. There’s room for all of it as long as we don’t try to make any one piece define us as a race.
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics… I’ve been very fortunate. ‘The Warriors’ is certainly a cult classic, and ‘Xanadu’ is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well.
Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.
I’m a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I’m that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it’s not really going to make me a better reader.
Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.
My husband is a graduate of two Ivy League universities – with a degree in Classics! – and he sounds like a David Mamet character when I hear him on a business call.
