Neil LaBute Quotes

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.

Neil LaBute

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• Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Actor
  • Comfort
  • Director

• People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Like
  • Popular

• Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • American
  • Single

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• I love books.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Books
  • I Love

• In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Best
  • Environment
  • Connection

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Prom

• My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Like
  • Fair
  • Bedroom

• People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Change
  • Result

• Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • Speed
  • Endurance

• Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Job
  • Know

• It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Time
  • Power
  • America

• I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Live
  • Playing
  • Consequences

• Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Work
  • Music
  • Nature

• Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Welcome

• Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Done
  • Why
  • Road

• Sometimes feeling overwhelmed is part of what it means to be a Christian. You can't bear somebody else's burden unless you are taking something of their load and it's weighing you down a little bit.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Feeling
  • Christian

• 9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Different

• Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Earth
  • Running
  • Economic

• The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what they need to feel when they walk out of the theater. That's your job, to literally put this book on film, you won't make a good movie, you'll do no service to anyone.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Good
  • Job
  • Book

• For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

  

  Daido Moriyama
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.

  

  Neil LaBute