John Lasseter Quotes

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

John Lasseter

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• If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Brother
  • Door
  • Successful

• Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Time
  • Money
  • Kids

• I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Playing
  • Hide
  • Paranoia

• Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!

  

  Zac Efron
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Club

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Hall

• If you look at a copy of EO 11110, you will find that it does not order the issuance of Silver Certificates. It orders an amendment to EO 10289... Those functions did not include the power to issue Silver Certificates.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Power
  • Look
  • Find

• I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Song

• Real estate investing is unique in that it's almost as much a career or a way of life as it is a form of investing. Indeed, the fact that real estate is involves so much sweat equity makes it unique among other investments.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Life
  • Real
  • Career

• When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Men

• It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, 'I' do not hit, 'it' hits all by itself.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • May

• I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7.

  

  Labrinth LSD

• Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Power

• And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Happy

• I know people don't think I work.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • People
  • Work

• Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

  

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

• I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game.

  

  Jonathan Vilma
  • Money
  • Game
  • Player

• Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • Country
  • Law
  • Responsibility

• Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Society

• That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

  

  Michael Johnson
  • Change
  • Back
  • Breath

• In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

  

  John Lasseter