Brian J. White Quotes
When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things.
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When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.
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I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.
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When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
