John Sebastian Quotes

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

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• When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Past

• It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Fun
  • Acting
  • Actor

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Like

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Mom

• Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Future
  • Success

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Chance

• I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Movies
  • Lot
  • Mother`s

• Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Like
  • Autumn
  • Hype

• The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Remember
  • Nice
  • Journey

• I lost my confidence.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Movie
  • Hope

• I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Always
  • Difference
  • Director

• I shake hands on the first date.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Hands
  • First
  • Date

• Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Beauty
  • Escape
  • Charmed

• The vampire story is something that has existed since 'Nosferatu,' and I don't think it's gonna go away.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Vampire

• I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'

  

  Jonas Armstrong
  • People
  • Guy
  • Today

• When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Music
  • Band
  • Making

• I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

  

  Joe DiMaggio
  • Help
  • Ambition

• All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Art
  • True
  • Greek

• The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

  

  John Sebastian
  • Band