Emily Procter Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
-
I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
-
A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
-
If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
-
Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
-
I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
-
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
-
I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
-
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
-
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
-
I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
-
I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
-
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
-
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
-
When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
-
The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
-
Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
-
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
-
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
-
I am the young, edgy New Yorker.
-
Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.
-
Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
-
If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.
