Matt LeBlanc Quotes

I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.

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• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Up
  • Country
  • Language

• Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfing to mountain-biking. Anything that gets me outside.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Me
  • Gets
  • Outdoors

• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Success
  • Excited
  • Far

• One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Design

• Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Music
  • Creativity
  • Same

• With acting, I didn't get much from it.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Acting
  • Get
  • Much

• My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Father
  • Name

• Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Thought
  • Place
  • Unusual

• Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Speed
  • Debate
  • Noise

• Every Sunday I’d take a 20-minute bus ride to his house in Beverley Hills for a one-hour lesson and be there for four hours ... They had four sons, they didn’t have a daughter and I kind of fitted in as the baby of the family.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Family
  • House
  • Baby

• Loving-if the answering breastSeem not to be thus possessed,Still in hoping have a care;If it do, beware, beware!But if in yourself you find it,Above all things-mind it, mind it!

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Mind

• I used Agitator on some code I had unit-tested, and it made me a better tester. As an Agitar Fellow, I look forward to the leverage of working with an outstanding organization as together we continue to improve the value of developer testing.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Together
  • Value
  • Organization

• As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.

  

  Alice Greczyn
  • Beautiful
  • Peace

• The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Growing

• As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.

  

  Joe Mauer
  • Control

• Some of the perceptions from my professors were that I was less than or that I wouldn't be able to compete or wouldn't be able to meet the same bar as my peers. I don't want that for my daughter or for any of the girls who come into our program.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Daughter

• There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.

  

  John McEnroe

• Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

  

  David Lodge
  • Age

• When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Important
  • Way
  • Realizing

• We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Experience
  • Forgiveness

• [Alex Haley] objective was to illustrate that the racial separatism of the N.O.I. was a kind of pathological or a kind of - it was the logical culmination of separatism and racial isolationism and exclusion.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Kind
  • Logical
  • Alex

• I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.

  

  Matt LeBlanc