Peter Berg Quotes

I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.

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• Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Gossip

• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Artist

• Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Big

• And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  

  Sam Neill
  • World
  • Acting
  • Sea

• Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

  

  Quintilian
  • Like
  • Dreams
  • Hopes

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Science
  • Freedom
  • Progress

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Work
  • Things
  • Making

• It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Try
  • One Word

• The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Death
  • Mean
  • Healthy

• Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Star
  • Born
  • Kid

• All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Powerful
  • Vote
  • Our

• I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Song

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Always
  • Years
  • Television

• In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Up
  • Country
  • Challenge

• I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Crazy
  • Myself
  • Wise

• I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

  

  David Nail
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself. Remember that.

  

  Ben Mikaelsen
  • Remember
  • Animals

• For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • Great
  • Education
  • Challenge

• Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Great
  • Advice
  • Guard

• I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Great
  • Night
  • Luck