Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
I was the first male cheerleader of my high school; it's very hard to embarrass me - you have to do a lot.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
-
The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
-
The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
-
If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
-
You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
-
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
-
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
-
I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
-
The devil made me do it.
-
In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
-
I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
-
I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
-
I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
-
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
-
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
-
I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
-
Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
-
They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
-
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
-
He had worked for an entire year to make a dream come true, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important. Maybe cause that wasn't really his dream.
-
I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.
-
I can only work between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, because that's when the kids are at school. So I get to do all my work and have all of my fun in that time, which means just sitting on a chair, typing, alternately clicking between writing a column and being on Twitter, and smoking as many cigarettes as I can before my lungs give out.
-
Ween is in my top five and have always been a huge inspiration.
-
I was the first male cheerleader of my high school; it's very hard to embarrass me - you have to do a lot.
