James Cromwell Quotes
Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process.
Quotes to Explore
-
There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
-
I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
-
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
-
Film has to describe and show.
-
The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
-
The life of an actor can be very enviable.
-
I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
-
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
-
If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
-
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
-
My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
-
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
-
I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
-
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
-
I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.
-
Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
-
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
-
I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
-
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
-
No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure that... because when you die, that's still what you have. It's what you're born with and what you leave with. It's kind of a story of the way you accompanied yourself through your life.
-
You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
-
I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
-
Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.
-
Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process.
