Bradley Whitford Quotes
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.
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America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
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My grandma once told my mama, 'The kid's walking crazy around the cornfield, talking to himself.' I was calling ballgames.
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We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
