Bill Paxton Quotes
It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
Quotes to Explore
-
Let's judge a man on what he's done.
-
What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
-
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
-
There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
-
The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
-
The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
-
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
-
If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
-
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
-
When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
-
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
-
I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
-
On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
-
You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
-
Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
-
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
-
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
-
I don't ever want to feel complacent.
-
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
-
Sometimes less is better with government.
-
I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.
-
We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.
-
What can a soldier do who charges when out of breath?
-
It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
