Peter Sarsgaard Quotes

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

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• I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Victory

• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Years
  • Ancestors

• The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Simple

• I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Doing
  • Year

• The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Think
  • Legacy
  • Determined

• I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Never

• Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • Career
  • Point
  • Turning Point

• It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • May
  • Home
  • American

• I love language, and I love the failure of language.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Love
  • Failure
  • Language

• I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Youth
  • Quite
  • Buoyant

• It's not important to me... people will see my films if they want to. Also, I cannot deal with so many things, I have bandwidth only for that much.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Important

• And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • Good
  • Business
  • Christian

• And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Men
  • Nature

• I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Health
  • Horse

• When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • She
  • Teacher

• Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.

  

  Leo Durocher

• 'Zoolander.' Yeah, I mean, I love Ben Stiller; he's just a brilliant guy. And I love Will Ferrell in it, too. His character, to me, is just insane, and he made such huge choices, and he's such a weirdo!

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Choices

• Not being boring is quite a challenge.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Challenge
  • Being
  • Boring

• Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Moral

• It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Certain
  • Revenge

• If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

  

  Peter Sarsgaard