David Morrissey Quotes

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

David Morrissey

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• I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Say

• Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Small
  • Community

• I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Like
  • Someone

• We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Want
  • Underestimate

• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Man
  • Understanding
  • Salary

• Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • House
  • Man

• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Man

• I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Black
  • Amazing
  • Weird

• I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.

  

  Pansy Ho
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Obstacles

• I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Me

• You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Work
  • Road
  • Name

• I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Know
  • More

• There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Humans are very good at dreaming, although you’d never know it from your television.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good

• My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Help

• There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Wisdom

• I think... as an actor, you never want to overspeak about something because, frankly, you want people to be excited about it but still have relatively low expectations so that people will feel better about it.

  

  Nicholas D'Agosto
  • People
  • Actor
  • Expectations

• Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell.

  

  George Jonas
  • Generation
  • Disappointment
  • Catch

• I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

  

  Dario Argento

• Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Music
  • Important

• My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.

  

  Aga Khan III
  • Understand
  • Views
  • Islam

• When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Disappointment
  • Rejection