Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes

Actors shouldn't be scared. Don't get scared on film.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

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• It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Why
  • Peace
  • Language

• The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Choose

• In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Why
  • Know
  • Always

• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Want
  • Play

• Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Hair
  • Red
  • Blood

• The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Support
  • College

• The enterprise of knowledge is consistent surely with science; it should be with religion, and it is essential for the welfare of the human species.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the Opposition parties in Parliament.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Believe
  • History

• Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.

  

  Randall Jarrell

• Let me close by reminding you of what Newton actually did on the day that he conceived

  

  Jacob Bronowski

• What is the reason that we find it so satisfactory to make excuses to ourselves-the only persons in the world to whom they must be altogether needless ?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • World
  • Excuses

• I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, 'We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!'

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Up
  • Sick

• Tillman was from South Carolina, and as I hear the story he was concerned that the corporations, Republican corporations, were favorable toward blacks and he felt that there was a need to regulate them.

  

  Clarence Thomas

• Gentlemen, there is nothing sweeter than success, and you boys have got it!

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Success

• I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• That driving incident, I did it with my dad.  I'd sit on his lap and I drive.  We're country.

  

  Britney Spears
  • Country
  • Dad
  • Driving

• I'm a real low profile guy. So a date night for me is kind of curled up at home and watching something... have a nice glass of wine, a nice meal and we're all set.

  

  Vincent Piazza
  • Real
  • Home
  • Guy

• I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it.

  

  Gemma Files
  • Always
  • Film
  • View

• Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Control
  • Lost

• You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Home
  • Game
  • Tolerance

• Actors shouldn't be scared. Don't get scared on film.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee