Brad Anderson Quotes
Persistence is half the battle. That's what I love about independent movies. They don't have to be made. There's no studio with an agenda to set up a franchise like 'Batman' or to make a vehicle for a celebrity actor. My films are made because I love the process.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
-
I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
-
If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
-
'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
-
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
-
There is no diplomacy like candor.
-
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
-
The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
-
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
-
I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
-
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
-
I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
-
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
-
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
-
I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
-
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
-
Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
-
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
-
It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
-
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
-
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
-
I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
-
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
-
Persistence is half the battle. That's what I love about independent movies. They don't have to be made. There's no studio with an agenda to set up a franchise like 'Batman' or to make a vehicle for a celebrity actor. My films are made because I love the process.
