Dick Van Dyke Quotes
I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
-
I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
-
A novel is not a rant.
-
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
-
Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
-
I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
-
The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
-
I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
-
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
-
'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
-
You don't fight ideas with bombs.
-
I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
-
I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
-
In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
-
Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
-
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.
-
I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
-
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
-
I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.
-
It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
-
Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do.
-
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
-
Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.
-
I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.
