Jerry Robinson Quotes

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Jerry Robinson

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• 'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Question
  • First
  • Explore

• How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Power
  • Hope

• I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Desire
  • Someone
  • Chef

• I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Think
  • Listening
  • Could

• I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Love
  • Movie

• It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Acceptance
  • Inflation

• I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Want
  • Identity
  • Driving

• I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

  

  Anastasia Griffith
  • Women
  • Opinion
  • Equality

• I don't just buy a dress because it's pretty - it has to be evocative of a mood, a character I want to take on.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Mood

• Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Revolution
  • Boxing
  • Temptation

• When I started doing projects for TV, I made sure to participate in the brainstorming sessions.

  

  Coco Martin

• For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

  

  LeBron James
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• 'Humans' seems to have gone down really well in the U.S. That doesn't happen for British TV drama - unless we're talking 'Downton Abbey.'

  

  Lucy Carless
  • Drama

• My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Habit
  • Smoking

• I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Time
  • Proud

• I definitely want to start a family, but that will happen when it's supposed to.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • Family

• I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

  

  Elle Fanning
  • Singing

• The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • World
  • Lying
  • Mountain

• Beauty has a lot to do with character.

  

  Kevyn Aucoin
  • Character

• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • She
  • Hope
  • Death

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing 'Batman' was like holding a Ming vase or something. And I said, 'No, it's like holding a big-ass diamond that you can't break. You can throw him against the ceiling, against the floor, anywhere, and you just can't break Batman.'

  

  Frank Miller
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Character

• We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman - ideas, characters and stories.

  

  Jerry Robinson
  • Batman