Jefferson Mays Quotes

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

Jefferson Mays

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• All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Start

• The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Acting
  • Really
  • Ever

• I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Power
  • Tomorrow
  • Pen

• I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • People
  • Up
  • Single

• I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Amazing

• I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

  

  Odette Annable
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Pretty
  • Joy
  • Woman

• I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Thought
  • See
  • Now

• The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Worry
  • Personality
  • Films

• I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Picture
  • Loved

• I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Want
  • Engagement
  • Ring

• You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.

  

  Beck
  • Pretty
  • Weird
  • Walking

• People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Day

• Watch the movie closely, and you’ll see how personal it is. Here’s a film in which cinema brings down the Nazi regime, metaphorically and literally. What could possibly be better than that? In this story, cinema changes the world, and I fucking love that idea!

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • World
  • Movie

• It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Broken

• In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Evil

• I'd love to say that I'm this brave person doing this big adventure and that it's easy. The truth is, the night before I left, I called my mom, crying and nervous, thinking, 'What am I getting into? Can I really ride my bike across the country?'

  

  Megan Shull
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Truth

• Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Work
  • Numbers
  • Prestige

• I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

  

  Ben Elliot

• I have a fanbase, and I have a large fanbase, and there's a lot of people that like me, and there's a lot of people that support me, and there's a lot of people that can relate to me.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • People
  • Support
  • Relate

• I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

  

  Jefferson Mays