Jason Priestley Quotes

Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.

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• I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Language

• Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Interesting
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Will
  • Loss

• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Truth
  • Memory
  • Complicated

• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Lives

• When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Right

• I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • American
  • Want

• I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Eye

• I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Girl
  • Three
  • Seven

• I don't care about how much other actors get.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Care
  • Other
  • How

• The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • World
  • Model
  • Impossible

• I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I make work not to give answers but to question things.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Work
  • Question
  • Give

• Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• Our responsibility is to protect people and help them into work.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Work
  • Want
  • Conversation

• I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

  

  Brian Dennehy
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising - mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It's agreed that this build-up will, in itself, induce a long-term warming trend, superimposed on all the other complicated effects that make climate fluctuate.

  

  Martin Rees
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• Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.

  

  Jason Priestley
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