John Frankenheimer Quotes

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

John Frankenheimer

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• If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Stage
  • Going

• When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Brain

• I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Diagnosed

• I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Camera

• I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Nature
  • Like
  • Where

• In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Flying

• After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brain

• 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Age
  • Politics
  • Beauty

• Women are always beautiful.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Always

• All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Taken

• You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • You
  • Integrity
  • Goodness

• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Stage
  • Morality
  • Boredom

• Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all curious to know what the director thinks of them and how they are evaluated, and they try to satisfy the director. And they like it if you listen carefully to their opinions and accept them.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • American
  • Know

• Greg White got a boxer because I said I was getting one. I was talking about getting a boxer since before training camp.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Training
  • Said
  • White

• It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Free
  • Constitution

• I got so pissed I took a little poll to see if anyone was sick of gettin' taxed as much as I am. I called 100 people one night and here's the results: everyone I polled said, 'You dumb ass, it's three o'clock in the morning!' (p. 131).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Night
  • Morning

• Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game - interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• For six years, the only consistent thing about our national drug policy has been its inconsistency. Harsher penalties, urine testing, hysteria, budget cuts and the simplistic 'Just Say No!' campaign (the equivalent of telling manic depressives to 'just cheer up') have returned drug education and treatment to the Reefer Madness era.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Up
  • Education
  • Drug

• I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Figure Out

• Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Important
  • Tears
  • Situation

• To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Up
  • Growing

• It definitely is an ice breaker going into the awards already having one, and it was just so crazy when I heard I did win because I was in London at the time, and we were doing a festival out there, and my manager was like, 'You just won an ACM.' And I was like, 'How? It's so early!'

  

  Maren Morris
  • Time
  • Crazy

• I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

  

  John Frankenheimer