I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
Allan Carr

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
Marisa Tomei

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.
Claire Forlani

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.
Ed O'Neill

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
Anthony Anderson

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.
Carmen Electra

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Francois Rabelais

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
Catherine Deneuve

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
Richard Price

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.
Jonathan Lethem

I'm a liberal arts junkie.
Mary Chapin Carpenter

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.
Noah Hathaway

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
Hedy Lamarr

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.
Traci Bingham

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
Sally Kirkland

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
Terence Stamp

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
Jet Li

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
Neville Marriner

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
Richard Eyre

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
Timothy West