James Vincent McMorrow Quotes
I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.
Quotes to Explore
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
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In my view a jazz musician is a great musician
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It's really easy to give in to, 'I want to raise my kids,' 'I want to be the best mom, so I have to give up my dreams.' I don't believe that. I think, if anything, being a living example to your children is beautiful.
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I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.
