Poorna Jagannathan Quotes

I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one.

Poorna Jagannathan

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• Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • People
  • Want
  • See

• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Never
  • Will
  • Become

• That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Work
  • Want
  • Morning

• There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Existence

• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Emotion
  • Flowers

• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Know

• There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

  

  B. B. King
  • Done
  • Want
  • Still

• I want to go down in history.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • History
  • Want
  • Down

• In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Want
  • You
  • Best

• If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Want
  • Accomplish

• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Death
  • Education

• I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Want
  • Stuff
  • Just

• I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Window

• I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Want
  • Body
  • Healthy

• I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Want
  • House
  • Know

• Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Want
  • Me
  • Air

• I don't want to have so many exes.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Many

• The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Become

• I just want to be more regular.

  

  Steven Hill
  • Want
  • Regular

• Without justice you won't have stability.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • You
  • Justice
  • Stability

• I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one.

  

  Poorna Jagannathan
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Become