Wheresoever thou findest a high mountain or a lofty hill and a green tree, know that an idol is there!
As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.
I was a 'bathroom actor' and people used to laugh at me, listening to my lofty aims and ambitions.
I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.
