Blythe Danner Quotes
I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.
Quotes to Explore
-
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
-
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
-
I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
-
I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
-
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
-
Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
-
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
-
I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
-
I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
-
People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
-
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
-
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
-
What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
-
I love the produce section at the grocery store.
-
Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
-
For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
-
I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.
-
Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.
-
My fried chicken is very simple. I pan-fry it in a skillet.
-
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
-
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
-
I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.
