Dennis Franz Quotes

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

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• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Moments
  • Influence

• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Vision

• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • American
  • Hand

• Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Stage
  • Some
  • Even

• I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Prison
  • Human Rights

• I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Serious
  • Politics

• Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Excellent
  • McDonald

• I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Baseball

• I love going swimming. I spent a lot of time in North London in summer going to Hampstead Heath and swimming in the ponds there. It's so beautiful; we're so lucky to have that in London.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Summer

• I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness.

  

  Jack Vance

• Open the doors that lead on in to EdenDon't want no cheap disguise.I follow the signs marked back to the beginning,No more compromise.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Beginning

• The rabbits bow before thee, And cower in the straw; The chickens are submissive, And own thy will for law; Bullfinches and canary Thy bidding do obey; And e'en the tortoise in its shell Doth never say thee nay.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Law

• There are no lower or higher or median moralities. There is only one morality, and it is precisely the one that was given to us during the time of Jesus Christ and that stops me, you and Barantsevich from stealing, offending others, lying etc.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Time
  • Jesus

• I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Pretty
  • Science
  • Catholic

• I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Up
  • Good
  • Character

• My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Father
  • Guy

• Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • America
  • Rumors

• I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.

  

  John Waters
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Movie

• The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Book
  • Travel

• Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • World
  • Men
  • Important

• 'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Mean
  • Risk
  • Diversity

• I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

  

  Dennis Franz