Kenny Ortega Quotes

I was working in theater, so I didn't get to go to my prom.

Kenny Ortega

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• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

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• Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

  

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• Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?

  

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• I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

  

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• Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

  

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• It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.

  

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• I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.

  

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• Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

  

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• When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

  

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• I grew up watching horror films from a very young age. My sister was never able to watch scary movies; I don't think she'll ever watch mine because she's just so bad at it. Its funny because I'm the complete opposite: I love to be scared. I love to have that fear before you go to bed, and you're like, 'Oh my God, please, nothing come out.'

  

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• Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.

  

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• My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

  

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• All I know is record, record, record, record.

  

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• In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

  

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• Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

  

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• The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.

  

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• Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

  

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• Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

  

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• O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

  

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• I actually didn't go to prom. I didn't have the chance.

  

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• I didnt get to go to prom; I was filming a death scene on my prom night. But I got to go to all the homecomings, and even the winter formals I got to go to, but the only thing I missed was the prom, but everything else was great.

  

  Michael Angarano
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• I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

  

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• I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache.

  

  Curly Howard
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• I was working in theater, so I didn't get to go to my prom.

  

  Kenny Ortega
  • Prom