James Frain Quotes

I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.

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• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action
  • Key

• For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Time
  • Me
  • First

• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Given
  • Decide

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • World
  • Respect

• You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • You
  • Police

• People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Commitment

• I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Will
  • I Can
  • Dressed

• No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • World
  • Home
  • Christmas

• I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Career
  • Want
  • Know

• For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Women
  • Brother
  • Husband

• I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Nice

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Long
  • Control
  • Fall

• Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • Money
  • Blue

• I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Kids
  • Science
  • Training

• Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Time
  • Drug
  • Marijuana

• Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Work
  • Success

• We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the better, starting in your own little surroundings, together with people who believe in it, too. This way you can make it work and show others that it actually can work. That doesn't mean that everybody has to do it like you "or else..." If there is no compromise possible, then it turns into extremism, and I don't think that extremism ever added something positive to the world.

  

  G.W. Sok
  • World
  • Better
  • Strive

• I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.

  

  James Frain
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men