Jerome Flynn Quotes
If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.
Quotes to Explore
-
When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
-
Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
-
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
-
I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
-
Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
-
God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
-
I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
-
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
-
I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
-
To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
-
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
-
Those who go along get along.
-
I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
-
I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
-
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
-
I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
-
I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
-
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
-
I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
-
I would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.
-
And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.
-
The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.
-
If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.
