Melanie Lynskey Quotes

I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'

Melanie Lynskey

• English
• Drama

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Different
  • Best
  • Actor

• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Long
  • Play

• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Money
  • Hope
  • Goal

• I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

  

  Karen Handel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Society

• I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.

  

  Damien Rice
  • People
  • Myself
  • Stand

• When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Day
  • Moving
  • Yourself

• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Together
  • Ending

• I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Truth
  • Proud
  • Speak

• I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

  

  Beck
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Personality

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Time
  • World
  • America

• 9/11 was a hugely overblown event that only assumed its overarching importance a) because it was done to the United States and b) because of the way the U.S. reacted.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Done

• In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

  

  Minka Kelly
  • Good
  • Relationship

• After 'NewsRadio,' I did say to my agent, 'If I get another TV show, I'd want to do a drama.' Then I got offered the part on 'ER,' and I was on that show for eight years.

  

  Maura Tierney
  • Drama

• Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

  

  Charles Jencks
  • Different
  • Architecture

• I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'

  

  Melanie Lynskey
  • English
  • Drama