Christopher Denham Quotes
I have a weak stomach. My wife is a doctor, so she finds it funny that I actually pass out when I get my blood drawn. I physically can't stand gore on screen. I can't stand blood and guts. Not for any puritanical/moral high-ground reason. I just don't want to black out.
Quotes to Explore
-
Body experience... is the centre of creation.
-
I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
-
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
-
If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
-
One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
-
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
-
I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
-
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
-
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
-
I received free health care.
-
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
-
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
-
You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
-
For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
-
I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.
-
I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
-
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
-
I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
-
I was eight years old when Miley Cyrus made her debut on Disney Channel's 'Hannah Montana' and beginning my senior year of high school when she delivered the VMAs performance that single-handedly butchered the teddy-bear industry.
-
For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.
-
For the most part, I've stayed as far away as possible from high school movies. I just don't find them to be that relatable to everybody? They become like this: 'Look at that period of time. Isn't that interesting?'
-
Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands apart, ... He has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men's chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, 'You know, I don't see any black people up there.' That was his focus the lives of black people.
-
Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.
-
I have a weak stomach. My wife is a doctor, so she finds it funny that I actually pass out when I get my blood drawn. I physically can't stand gore on screen. I can't stand blood and guts. Not for any puritanical/moral high-ground reason. I just don't want to black out.
