Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

Neil Patrick Harris

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• I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • House
  • Single
  • Look

• I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Tears

• The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mistake
  • Place
  • First

• He who awaits much can expect little.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Expect
  • Little
  • Much

• Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Wise Man

• I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Age
  • Group
  • Belong

• The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • You
  • Respect
  • White

• You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Good
  • Find
  • Boredom

• I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Amazing

• Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Strive
  • Favors

• The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Play

• Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Night
  • Always
  • Makeup

• Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Art

• The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Rock
  • Like
  • Record

• A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Book
  • Car
  • Police

• I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Together
  • Joy
  • Theatre

• Sometimes when you do voices next to each other, especially when you're first starting out, they tend to bleed into each other. Working on a show like 'Futurama,' we do multiple characters there, but we've been doing it for a while, so the voices are really well-defined in our heads.

  

  Phil LaMarr

• We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Nature
  • Found
  • Sides

• At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?"

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Enough
  • Performance
  • Terrified

• Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Feelings
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington
  • World
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris