Chris Carter Quotes
I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.
Quotes to Explore
-
Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
-
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
-
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
-
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
-
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
-
I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
-
I'm a little angry in life.
-
Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
-
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
-
People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
-
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
-
My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
-
I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
-
I'm a runner first before anything else.
-
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
-
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
-
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
-
If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
-
I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
-
We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.
-
I think every actor would probably say that it's always a collaboration. And if you ask directors, they'll tell you that they expect the actors to bring something. They don't want to be thinking for everybody.
-
In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.
-
Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film.
-
I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.
