John Carroll Lynch Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
-
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
-
I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
-
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
-
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
-
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
-
As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.
-
I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
-
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
-
I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
-
The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
-
I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
-
I exist as I am, that is enough.
-
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
-
Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path that she's made is incredible.
-
When you like something, you find time to do it.
-
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
-
Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.
-
Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.
-
I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.
-
I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.
-
Myrnin: "There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl." Claire: "Except yours.
-
If I'm going to rehearse, I don't necessarily rehearse in costume.
