Billy Magnussen Quotes

That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

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• I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Day
  • Diversity

• 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.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America
  • Man

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Truth
  • Bible

• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Words
  • Vague
  • Properly

• From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Inspiration

• The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Simple
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • American
  • Dream
  • Myself

• But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Should

• I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Song
  • Singing

• My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Family
  • City
  • Chicago

• I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Home
  • Road
  • Been

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.

  

  Eli Roth
  • People
  • Movie
  • Violence

• Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Looks

• How do you talk about the Holocaust? How do you talk about slavery? Probably the best thing to do is just be quiet and hide from it, forget about it. Except, then it jumps up and bites you. Because it's there.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Up
  • Slavery
  • Holocaust

• I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Deals
  • Meetings
  • Courses

• I would love to live stream them all, so if you're in New York and you come along, you can watch Tropfest N.Y., and six weeks later you are watching Tropfest Arabia or Tropfest Australia live stream, and so they are all connected.

  

  John Polson
  • Live

• That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

  

  Billy Magnussen
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