Bill Paxton Quotes

On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middle name! My father doesn't like middle names.

Bill Paxton

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• Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • People
  • Bad
  • Father

• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Work
  • Father

• Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Father
  • Play
  • Right

• I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Father
  • Person
  • Felt

• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Father
  • Face

• Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Father
  • Wine
  • Very

• From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Father
  • Culture
  • Education

• I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Father

• If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • You
  • Spirit
  • Place

• My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • Father

• I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Same
  • Year

• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Love
  • Father
  • Girl

• When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Work
  • Father
  • Band

• I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Father
  • Prison
  • Electricity

• Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Movie
  • Father
  • Myself

• My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Father
  • Me
  • Best

• My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

  

  Ian Watson
  • World
  • Father
  • Law

• I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Children
  • Father
  • Parent

• I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Inspired
  • Influence
  • Show

• Nowadays, it's so silly to not express your feelings, as long as you respect peoples' spaces and respect their limits. You have to live your life in peace, and no one has anything to do with that.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• One big part of Movember is raising awareness for men's health. A lot of people gotten involved found out members of their extended families had had prostate cancer.

  

  Emily Calandrelli
  • People
  • Men
  • Health

• Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Time
  • Art
  • Ideas

• On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middle name! My father doesn't like middle names.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Father