Jessica Jung Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
-
Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
-
For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.
-
The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
-
I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
-
There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
-
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
-
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
-
There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
-
I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
-
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-
I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
-
A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
-
I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
-
I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
-
The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
-
There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
-
I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
-
When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.
-
A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
-
My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.
-
I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.
-
People know my name and that can get me in the door but on the same hand people know my name and that can have them shut the door.
-
I wanted to tell people that hope is really powerful.
