Jake Johnson Quotes
Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'
Quotes to Explore
-
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
-
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
-
In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
-
You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
-
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
-
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
-
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
-
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
-
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
-
Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
-
I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
-
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
-
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
-
Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
-
I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
-
I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
-
Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
-
The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.
-
Yes, prices go up in health care. They have been doing so for 80 straight years.
-
The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?
-
Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'
