Theme Quotes

I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

It's based around a Jewish family but it really is a universal theme about getting along and coming along.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the 'inside look' at that, it seems to be a theme of what I do.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.