Billy Magnussen Quotes
I eat eight times a day. But it's what my intake is. I eat all the time, but it's good stuff. You want to eat that chocolate? You want to eat that dessert? Have that apple or vegetable instead.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
-
When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
-
If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
-
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
-
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
-
Every idea has its time.
-
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
-
Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
-
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-
I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
-
I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
-
Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
-
A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
-
Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
-
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
-
The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
-
The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
-
There's no good guys and bad guys.
-
Like all fairy tales, the story of Sleeping Beauty begins with 'Once upon a time,' and continues with a foolish young princess who makes a witch very angry, and then takes a nap until her boyfriend wakes her up with a kiss and insists on getting married, at which point the story ends with the phrase 'happily ever after.'
-
Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.
-
I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994.
-
I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality.
-
My high-school friends and I felt part of a community of smart, forward-looking space and technology freaks.
-
I eat eight times a day. But it's what my intake is. I eat all the time, but it's good stuff. You want to eat that chocolate? You want to eat that dessert? Have that apple or vegetable instead.
