Billy Boyd Quotes

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

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• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Death

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Like
  • Born
  • Almost

• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Success
  • Meaning

• Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Education
  • Style
  • English

• I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Stand

• The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Free
  • Beauty
  • Lunch

• You need a big ego to be an artist.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Need
  • Ego

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Friendship

• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Way

• I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Good
  • American
  • Guy

• Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Give

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
  • Government
  • Group

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

  

  Logic
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Intuition

• Coach Wooden, when he speaks, you listen. I've taken a lot of things from him and his little blue book because to him, it's not just about basketball, it's about life as well.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Life
  • Book
  • Taken

• Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Sky
  • Looking

• When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Feel
  • Saying
  • Hungry

• But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

  

  Billy Boyd
  • Trying