Dave Bautista Quotes
I had been struggling to get roles in Hollywood for three and a half years after leaving the WWE. Then I finally got an agent - the agent I have now. He's a great guy, but he turned me down three times before he even decided to take me on a as a client.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
-
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
-
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
-
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
-
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
-
With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
-
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
-
College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
-
My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
-
The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
-
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
-
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
-
Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
-
I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
-
I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
-
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
-
I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
-
Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
-
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
-
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
-
I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You have to deal with the cards that have been dealt, of course, but I don't think very old age, if you haven't got your marbles, can be very nice.
-
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
-
I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.
-
I had been struggling to get roles in Hollywood for three and a half years after leaving the WWE. Then I finally got an agent - the agent I have now. He's a great guy, but he turned me down three times before he even decided to take me on a as a client.
