Chris Colfer Quotes
The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.
Quotes to Explore
-
I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
-
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
-
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
-
As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
-
Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
-
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
-
Our career had a sort of funny shape.
-
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
-
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
-
Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
-
I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
-
Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
-
I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
-
We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
-
My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
-
That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
-
Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
-
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
-
That was a time when only the dead could smile, delivered from their wars, and the sign, the soul, of Leningrad dangled outside its prison-house...
-
I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.
-
My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.
-
It is fear that drives the hippies to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a 'greater whole,' it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the momentary illusion of an unearned personal significance.
-
The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.
