Jonathan Frakes Quotes

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

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• Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Why
  • Everything
  • Class

• Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Most

• We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Dating
  • September
  • January

• There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Feet
  • Boots

• I don't want to be on the road all my life.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Life
  • Road
  • My Life

• I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Home
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Me
  • Rival

• I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Military
  • Texas

• Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Country
  • Family

• You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Acceptance
  • Rejection

• My children and their happiness have always been my greatest concern.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Children
  • Always
  • Happiness

• I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

  

  Larry David
  • Write
  • Idiots
  • I Write

• In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Better
  • Look
  • Did

• When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Theatre
  • Films
  • Comedies

• The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • New

• There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Up
  • House

• They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • War
  • Warrior

• I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Past
  • Design
  • Wall

• Well, if I could play like Wynton (Marsalis), I wouldn't play like Wynton.

  

  Chet Baker
  • Play
  • Wynton

• Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.

  

  Allison Silverman
  • People
  • Writing
  • Issues

• When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Real
  • Amazing

• Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

  

  Leon Kass
  • Late
  • Notion
  • Biology

• Once I will warn you, and then I will fire you! I have a zero-tolerance-plus-one policy for gossip. I will teach you once, and then I will fire your butt.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Fire
  • Tolerance
  • Gossip

• I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

  

  Jonathan Frakes