Elliott Smith Quotes

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.

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• It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Fun
  • Acting
  • Actor

• What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Start
  • Down
  • Eating

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Building
  • Bridges
  • Walls

• I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Like

• It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Exercise
  • Look

• Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Life
  • Famous
  • Same

• My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Mom

• Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Future
  • Success

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Hate

• We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Add

• Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Like
  • Autumn
  • Hype

• To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Done
  • Art
  • True

• I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Need
  • Something
  • Mature

• The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Remember
  • Nice
  • Journey

• I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Business
  • Same

• I'm proud to say I was part of a movement in which we sang 'All You Need Is Love' at political rallies.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Political
  • Proud
  • Movement

• It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Great
  • Together
  • Band

• When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Interesting
  • Band

• We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band, a stoner band, etc) to "a band that plays music with a certain sensibility or style to it". I'm not able to see quite what that is, but it's there and some people like it a lot.

  

  Bent Sæther
  • Music
  • Band
  • Sensibility

• There I was at 'The Tree of Life' premiere, holding hands with Sean Penn and Brad Pitt. That walk down the red carpet was a real rite of passage for me. Suddenly, journalists began asking, 'Who's this actress?'

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Life
  • Real
  • Red

• There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.

  

  Elliott Smith
  • Band