Max Thieriot Quotes
I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn't need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor.
Quotes to Explore
-
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
-
I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
-
In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
-
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
-
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
-
I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
-
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
-
The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
-
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
-
Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
-
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
-
I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
-
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
-
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
-
When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
-
Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
-
I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
-
I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
-
I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
-
Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.
-
I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.
-
I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.
-
The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.
-
I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn't need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor.
