Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes

My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.

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• Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Free
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Best
  • Thrive

• I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Sun
  • Inspired
  • Look

• An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • World
  • American
  • Reading

• Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Justice
  • Better
  • Judges

• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Control
  • Very
  • Machine

• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • People
  • Care
  • Foundation

• I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Literature
  • Try

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Sharing

• Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hate
  • Brother
  • Speech

• This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Deep

• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Too Much

• Cricket was my reason for living.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Reason
  • Living
  • Cricket

• I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.

  

  John Lee Hancock
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  • Time
  • Father

• I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Happy

• I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.

  

  Joe Jamail
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  • Done
  • Friends

• I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

  

  Douglas Booth
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• There's something about breaking up with someone - you just look hotter than you ever did before.

  

  Pink
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• My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
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