Jay Ellis Quotes
I want to create this pool of talent to draw from, and I hope that people get inspired to make more web series and bring them to me to help develop.
Quotes to Explore
-
It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
-
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
-
You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
-
I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
-
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
-
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
-
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
-
Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
-
I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
-
There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
-
You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
-
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
-
It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
-
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.
-
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
-
Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
-
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
-
I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
-
The thing with drama is you're allowed to invent people who are maybe slightly better than real people.
-
My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.
-
I would argue that the U.S. health care system is broken for reasons other than innovation.
-
I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
-
The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
-
I want to create this pool of talent to draw from, and I hope that people get inspired to make more web series and bring them to me to help develop.
