Billy West Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
-
I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
-
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
-
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
-
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
-
I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
-
Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
-
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
-
Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
-
A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
-
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
-
After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
-
Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
-
I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
-
I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
-
You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
-
The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
-
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
-
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
-
Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.
-
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
-
You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
-
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.
-
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
