Jay Ryan Quotes

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

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• The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Sin

• I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.

  

  Oren Peli
  • History
  • Know
  • Find

• I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Stories
  • Tennis
  • Brilliant

• Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Sometimes
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dress

• Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • Love
  • Happy

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Growth

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Good
  • Game
  • Street

• There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Energy
  • Grow
  • Chemistry

• World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Ordeal

• In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Support

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Real
  • Know
  • Water

• If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • People
  • Belief
  • Islam

• Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Real
  • Passion
  • Universe

• Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • Life

• The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Family
  • Animal
  • Japanese

• Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?

  

  Zell Miller
  • Why
  • American

• I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

  

  Jay Ryan
  • People