Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes

I wasn't bullied or anything, but I was treated differently because I was an actor, and I had big dreams.

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• I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.

  

  Fleur East
  • White
  • Bread
  • Rubbish

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Speaking

• I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.

  

  T.I.
  • Me
  • Doubt
  • Exist

• You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Character
  • Guy
  • You

• I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Character
  • Change
  • Moment

• With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Lost
  • Revolution
  • Name

• The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Party
  • Voice

• I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Important
  • Health
  • Problem

• I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great – once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Surprised

• 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Air

• Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Young
  • For Her

• When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Real
  • Power
  • Body

• When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Social
  • Economic
  • Policy

• 'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine.'

  

  Ian Fleming

• I am merely a seeker after knowledge, taking the world for my province, for it seems all knowledge is interrelated, and each science is dependent to some extent on the others. We study the stars that we may know more about our earth, and herbs that we may know medicine better.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • World
  • May
  • Science

• I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

  

  Jon Fishman
  • Good
  • Music
  • Pretty

• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Gratitude
  • Duty
  • Philosophical

• Chris Kyle was a human being, a Texan, Navy SEAL, father, husband, brother, friends to many, and a hero to many; this, at a time when we need all the heroes we can get. I knew him to be a good person, regardless of all the hype floating around in the media.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Time
  • Good
  • Friends

• I wasn't bullied or anything, but I was treated differently because I was an actor, and I had big dreams.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee