Jim McKay Quotes
If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.
Quotes to Explore
-
Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
-
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
-
The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
-
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
-
People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
-
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
-
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
-
I've always been a rough kid.
-
I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
-
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
-
I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
-
I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
-
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
-
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-
I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
-
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
-
They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
-
There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
-
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
-
'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.
-
I am capable of directing, and I am good at that. In order to have longevity as actors, you have to keep changing it up a bit; you have to bring other talents to the table. I want this to be another feather in my cap instead of replacing what I already have.
-
A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.
-
I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it will move somewhere. There's something about plays where you can feel that sense of artifice at any moment.
-
If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.
