Chris Lowell Quotes

I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

Chris Lowell

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• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Fiction

• Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Looking
  • Going

• The surface is all you get of me.

  

  Gary Hume
  • You
  • Me
  • Get

• It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Star

• It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Me
  • Interesting
  • Lived

• Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Words
  • Friendship
  • Solitude

• This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Done
  • Fun
  • Me

• It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Work
  • Party

• I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

  

  Adam Faith
  • People
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Reality
  • Feminist
  • Movement

• I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Important
  • Comfort Zone

• You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • May
  • House

• Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Honesty
  • Treat

• Venturing further than the length of your sightOut past the reach of your beginningsThere is a gamble in each proud act of flightBut the losses pale before the winningsCircling and diving with this freedom you’ve foundIllusion blows apart and scattersThere is no darkness in this place that we're boundLove is the only thing that matters

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Past
  • Freedom
  • Proud

• A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Work

• Same thing happened in the punk movement in the late 70's...a punk band would start, play one gig, and get signed to a major label right away, 'cause it was a trend. That just shows there are a lot of old school dinosaurs in the record industry who need to be weeded out.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • School
  • Band

• Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

  

  Arnold Bennett
  • Culture
  • Wonder

• Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Nature

• Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Value
  • Creativity
  • Random

• Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison and Pablo Picasso.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • People
  • Life
  • Jim Morrison

• I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Work
  • White House
  • Energy efficiency

• I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things.

  

  Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
  • Trying
  • Doors
  • Laboratory

• I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

  

  Chris Lowell