Jason Patric Quotes

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

Jason Patric

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• I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Red
  • Down

• I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Think

• I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

  

  Damien Rice
  • People
  • Life
  • Train

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• 'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • World
  • Important
  • Mother

• If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Right
  • Now
  • Exist

• I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Name

• I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Stop
  • Band
  • Door

• It's not really cool to be singled out.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Cool
  • Really
  • Singled

• The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Meaning
  • Greatest

• I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Important
  • Human
  • Face

• Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Different
  • Think

• Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Hand
  • Civilization
  • Go

• I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Education
  • Food

• When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Experience
  • Together

• That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Same
  • Role
  • Stuck

• As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Life
  • Different
  • Present

• I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

  

  Kenneth Langone

• If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Age
  • Certain
  • Alive

• When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Third World
  • Hair short
  • Wear ties

• When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

  

  Jason Patric