Jake Paltrow Quotes

For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.'

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• I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Role
  • Lady
  • Attracted

• I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Time
  • Children
  • Rest

• The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Why
  • Kids

• How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Short

• The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Disappointing

• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • I Can

• Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Real
  • School

• What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Think
  • Civilization

• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Teach
  • Busy

• I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Wish
  • Him
  • I Wish

• Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Fact

• I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Real
  • Want
  • Cool

• I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Yourself

• In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • High
  • Today

• My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Parents
  • Attention
  • Morning

• Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Suffering
  • Never
  • Loneliness

• The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Men
  • Women

• You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up.

  

  Priscilla Presley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Today

• Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • People
  • Done
  • Wonder

• I still take work if I think it's good. If I like the script, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Good
  • Work

• It's like catching an ice cream cone out of the air because a child was hit by a car.

  

  John Oliver
  • Car
  • Air

• For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.'

  

  Jake Paltrow
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