John Francis Daley Quotes

I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it!

John Francis Daley

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• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Brain
  • Study
  • Same

• When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Name
  • Hollywood
  • Pictures

• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Free
  • Learning
  • Leave

• I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Good
  • Balance

• A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Up
  • Man
  • Star

• Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Nature
  • Here
  • Delight

• It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Family
  • Nice
  • Look

• I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Balance

• I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Peace
  • Thought
  • Desert

• Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Either

• This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean

  

  Najib Razak
  • Deep
  • Ocean
  • Regret

• I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Life
  • Long
  • Mind

• Life is not a monotone but a many-stringed harmony, and to this harmony is contributed a distinctive note by each individual.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Life

• Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Good
  • Work
  • Real

• When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they're just never accurate.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People

• I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Age

• Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Different
  • Done
  • Soul

• I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Myself
  • Used
  • Thrilled

• You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

  

  Jimmy Breslin
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Boy

• The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it!

  

  John Francis Daley
  • Boss