George Chakiris Quotes

I don't regret 'West Side Story' one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.

George Chakiris

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• You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • You
  • Going

• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Body
  • Better

• When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Freedom
  • Destroying
  • Creeds

• I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Band
  • Greatest
  • Planet

• I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • People
  • Kind
  • Early

• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Die
  • End
  • Civilization

• And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dream
  • You
  • Dare

• I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Remember
  • Interviews

• For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Hard

• 'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s things - every girl gave them to her best friend. I remember exchanging a few with a boy on a bus when I was 14. I thought he hated me, but in hindsight, maybe he was in love with me, because he gave me the best music.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Friend

• I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Decision
  • Right
  • Percent

• I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Want
  • Hate
  • Wait

• 'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • People
  • Star
  • Direction

• I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Grow

• My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Important
  • Science
  • Revolution

• Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Great
  • Money
  • Business

• I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Hand
  • Photography
  • Six

• When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Name

• I'm sick of making bloody history.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • History
  • Sick
  • Making

• Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Imagination
  • Perception

• The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • People
  • World
  • Science

• To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I'm real excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all of the great CBS shows. I think I'm prepared, so if you're ready, let's have the first item up for bids.

  

  Ray Combs
  • Ready
  • Excited
  • Prepared

• I don't regret 'West Side Story' one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.

  

  George Chakiris
  • People
  • Rapport
  • Don't Regret