Christopher Atkins Quotes

I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

Christopher Atkins

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• The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Never
  • Really
  • Stopped

• No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Water
  • Religion
  • Color

• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Wife

• The march of the human mind is slow.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • March
  • Slow

• Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Days
  • Straight
  • Seventeen

• You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Society
  • Small

• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Woman
  • Looks

• I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mom
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Love
  • Thought
  • Acting

• I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Time
  • Done
  • Home

• When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Positive
  • Lead
  • Pregnancy

• Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Great
  • Today
  • Game

• If someone said, 'Jon, we need $250 million a year from now and we can make a dramatic breakthrough for ovarian cancer,' I'd have $250 million in two months. You just work day and night if the cause in your heart is justified.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Sr.
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Night

• Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Up
  • Book
  • Value

• I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.

  

  Emily Browning
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

  

  Jet Li
  • World
  • Believe
  • Family

• I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

  

  Christopher Atkins
  • Movie
  • Vampire