Diego Klattenhoff Quotes
I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.
Quotes to Explore
-
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
-
People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
-
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
-
It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
-
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
-
I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
-
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
-
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
-
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
-
Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
-
The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
-
It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
-
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
-
Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
-
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
-
I am happy in Paris.
-
When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
-
One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
-
And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.
-
'At Freddie's' takes place in 1960s London at the Temple Stage School for child actors. It has a plot that makes you feel sorry for the people who have to write summaries on the backs of books.
-
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
-
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
-
There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.
-
I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.
