Bill Flores Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
-
I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
-
The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
-
When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
-
I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
-
You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
-
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
-
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
-
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
-
Music is such a part of my soul.
-
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
-
I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
-
I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
-
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
-
The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
-
For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
-
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
-
It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
-
My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
-
Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
-
I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
-
I think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.
-
I will never support amnesty legislation because it will not work.
