Keith Coogan Quotes

That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: 'Use your eyes!' Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.

Keith Coogan

• Family
• Mother
• Eyes
• Challenge

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• I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
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• I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
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• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

  Lana Turner
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• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
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• I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

  

  Vin Scully
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• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
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• I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
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• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • God
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• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • History
  • Day
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• I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Career
  • Learning
  • Beginning

• I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
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• One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

  

  Kate Forsyth
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• If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

  

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• I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
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• The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• My fans are like, 'Lab does what he does,' which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, 'Yeah, cool man,' which is great.

  

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• It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'

  

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  • Peace
  • Amazing
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• I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

  

  Adele
  • Music
  • Eyes
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• Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was OK, records was cool, but when people wanted to party, they got around a piano. My mother played piano, my sister played. I've been around a lot of piano all my life.

  

  Dr. John
  • People
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• That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: 'Use your eyes!' Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.

  

  Keith Coogan
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Eyes