Jeffrey Donovan Quotes

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

Jeffrey Donovan

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• I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • World
  • High
  • Success

• I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Peaceful

• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Never
  • Criticism
  • Salt

• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• I'm in a really nice position because I can be selective with the modeling jobs that I do and just work with brands I'm passionate about. The two worlds balance out nicely for me because modeling is so social - it has travel, you meet people, it's extroverted. Whereas painting is very solitary - when I paint, I'm kind of in my own world.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Important
  • Trees
  • Ecosystem

• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Dance

• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Light
  • Beauty

• As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • Free
  • Myself
  • Perfume

• Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Great
  • Men
  • Fame

• Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fear
  • Constitution
  • Debate

• We're told all the time to give up everything for love. That's the Western notion of what love is - love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Women
  • Love

• I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music

• Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.

  

  Cliff Chiang
  • Long
  • She
  • Character

• A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Fun
  • Guy

• In my platoon, we came from different parts of the country, with different backgrounds, different religious beliefs, different political beliefs—and yet we all put those differences aside. Fundamentally, I believe that’s what the American people expect of Congress as well. We all ought to be able to come together in Washington and do what’s best for our America.

  

  Seth Moulton
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• Fortunately, I was given an incredible foundation from my independent mother. She showed me what was possible from a strong, loving woman.

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • She
  • Mother
  • Strong

• If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

  

  Jeffrey Donovan