Eric Christian Olsen Quotes

When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Understand

• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • School
  • Learn
  • Example

• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Gambling

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fear

• Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Change
  • Journalism

• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Always
  • Trials

• As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Freedom

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Success

• I worked with Michael Black and Michael Showalter on their show 'Michael and Michael Have Issues.' We did some stuff on that, but it ended up not getting picked up for a second season. There will be more stuff, but not right now. Michael Showalter and I are literally next-door neighbors. We see quite a lot of each other.

  

  Zak Orth
  • Up
  • Black
  • Door

• We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Strong
  • Fighting
  • Opinion

• New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Together
  • Age

• The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

  

  Charles Mengel Allen

• Alice In Chains: Love, Sex, Pain And Suffering... Interview conducted by Ian McFarlane in 1991

  

  Layne Staley
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Sex

• I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMusic called 'disBAND,' told me, 'I think I just found your next favorite artist to adore.' He sent me The Weeknd, and he was completely spot on. The Weeknd is literally on every playlist I have.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Me

• Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Life
  • Remember

• When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

  

  Eric Christian Olsen
  • Remember
  • Amazing