Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes

I'm geeky about video games. I don't stay inside a lot and just play them 24/7, but if I had the chance, I probably would.

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• I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • Character
  • Book

• My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Jewelry
  • Favourite
  • Wardrobe

• The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Cool

• In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Decisions

• Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Look

• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Well

• Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• It's impossible to be someone you're not, so quit trying. I am as passionate about my hobbies as I am about my work and my family. All three are equally important to me at all times.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Different
  • Women
  • Culture

• At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Night
  • Fire
  • Dignity

• Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

  Ford Frick
  • You
  • Others
  • Deaf

• The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Way
  • Fall

• I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Good
  • Great
  • Why

• At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Leader
  • Stage
  • Orchestra

• The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

  

  Ariel Sharon
  • American
  • Model

• The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Moral

• It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Up
  • Happy

• Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well. . .they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Life
  • Death
  • Decisions

• A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

  

  William Penn
  • Work
  • Art
  • House

• Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

  

  William James
  • Evil
  • Prove
  • Concern

• But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • Why
  • America
  • Question

• I'm geeky about video games. I don't stay inside a lot and just play them 24/7, but if I had the chance, I probably would.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee