Jonathan Krisel Quotes
Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.
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Most parents don’t know really their children.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.
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My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her.
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There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans.
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Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.
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Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.
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If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.
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Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is.
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Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
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If I observe my cats carefully, it is partly because I observe everyone I deal with as carefully as I can and partly because they amuse and entertain me. They are an important part of the fabric of my daily life.
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To me, Elijah Wood is one of the best actors of my generation. He's so incredibly present and in the moment, when you're working with him, and then we just chat away about anything off camera because he's a lovely guy.
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My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.
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I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.
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There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions, bearing no fruit, and maintaining only the semblance of existence; such a church cannot long survive.
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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
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Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out.
