Aaron Sorkin Quotes
A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
Quotes to Explore
-
You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
-
I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
-
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
-
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
-
I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
-
I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
-
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
-
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
-
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
-
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
-
We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
-
Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
-
I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
-
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
-
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
-
I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
-
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
-
I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
-
The real task was to write songs that were believably bad. It was one of the best jobs I've ever had in
-
The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric.
-
A picador is the guy in a bullfight who helps make sure the matador doesn't get killed by distracting the bull. That's what TV writing is. You're just distracting the bull long enough to stick around for the next set of commercials.
-
A frustration that I've had recently is that a lot of songs that I listen to draw on scenarios that aren't very realistic, so I just wanted to do something that was more down to earth. And I think my fans, who already know a lot about me, will learn something new.
-
A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
