Peter Horton Quotes

Every director I've ever admired has a beard.

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• My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Always
  • Humanity
  • Human

• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • Death

• Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Character
  • Death
  • Parents

• Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Children
  • History
  • Throne

• I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Together
  • Summer
  • Same

• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Best
  • Motivational
  • Plant

• Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • World
  • Father
  • Everything

• Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Today
  • You
  • Australia

• But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in the country, and I think we did change this country. And I think we will continue to, and I know that my father is not going to stop fighting.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Country
  • Father
  • Change

• Die Gesellschaft besteht nicht aus Individuen, sondern drückt die Summe der Beziehungen, Verhältnisse aus, worin diese Individuen zueinander stehn.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Die

• I've repeatedly warned we must avoid the extremists: those who say we should pull out our troops in Vietnam immediately, those who say we should escalate and go right into North Vietnam... I tell you, we should continue doing what we have been: just messing around.

  

  Pat Paulsen

• Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.

  

  Elton John

• For me, what makes a dope concept is it's a fresh idea, something that I've never heard before.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Dope

• I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

  

  David Chase
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• I think that if you've got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to not worry about your job and getting sacked and just go for it and hit it again.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• I do love situational comedy, clowning, and slapstick; I approach that with a lot of respect. The goofier you are, it doesn't mean you're going to be funnier.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Respect
  • Comedy

• The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • People
  • Live
  • Forever

• I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London when I got engaged to Bryan Ferry, and I studied at the National Theatre there.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • School
  • High
  • Drama

• When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school.

  

  Aja Brown
  • School
  • Law
  • Entrepreneur

• Whenever you meet anyone, no matter how briefly, do you acknowledge their being by giving them your full attention, or are you reducing them to a means to an end, a mere function or role. What is the quality of your relationship with the cashier at the supermarket, the parking attendant, the repair man, the customer?

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Giving
  • Relationship
  • Attention

• When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Growing
  • Shows
  • Broadway

• I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Community

• Every director I've ever admired has a beard.

  

  Peter Horton