Jamie Wyeth Quotes

Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.

Jamie Wyeth

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• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

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• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

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• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

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• I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.

  

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• I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.

  

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• I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

  

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• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  

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• Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • People
  • Up
  • God