Peter Mullan Quotes
There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer...', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.
Quotes to Explore
-
What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
-
I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
-
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
-
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
-
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
-
I'm a total people pleaser.
-
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
-
People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
-
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
-
I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
-
I can be very ordinary looking.
-
I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
-
If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
-
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
-
I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
-
To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
-
I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
-
My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
-
It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
-
The good needs fear no law,It is his safety and the bad man's awe.
-
Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
-
One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me.
-
Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.
-
There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer...', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.
