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

• When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.

  

  Valerie June
  • Loved
  • Whitney Houston

• 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

• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  

  Ovid
  • Reason
  • Now
  • Instinct

• 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

• God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Free
  • Environment

• 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

• I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • Purpose
  • Mysterious

• During the process of writing the book, I had this experience that was telling for me. I got it and the basic idea and got the plots and everything, but I wasn't sure who the audience was. I exist in this other world - in the book publishing and magazine world of people who would make fun of this project. We were driving home after two weeks in Maine, and we stopped in a gas station in Massachusetts and saw that Snooki had just been arrested. It was a surreal moment. My last few weeks were spent trying to get in this person's head, and there she was in on the cover of the New York Post .

  

  Valerie Estelle Frankel
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• As an actor, overexposure can affect you negatively if you keep repeating yourself. But thankfully, my films are really different from each other.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Different

• If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

  

  Richard Rodgers
  • Somebody
  • Happier

• 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