George MacKay Quotes

If you've got a camera that's two feet away from you, you have to bring it all back down. It's a lot more insular. It's different brush strokes. Whereas on stage, you're playing to people who, depending on the size of the theater, might be 40 meters away from you.

George MacKay

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• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

  

  Karen Bender
  • School
  • Control
  • Morning

• I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Mom

• I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Fear
  • Half
  • Satan

• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Up
  • Different
  • Character

• My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • She
  • Me
  • Mom

• Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Best

• Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • Person
  • Certainly

• It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • True
  • You
  • Brand

• I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Lose

• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Horror
  • Making
  • Sounds

• I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Society
  • Strong
  • Myself

• My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Community
  • Passion
  • Politics

• Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Different
  • Character
  • High

• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Face
  • Paint
  • Inside

• Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Help
  • Joy

• A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Pretty

• If you've got a camera that's two feet away from you, you have to bring it all back down. It's a lot more insular. It's different brush strokes. Whereas on stage, you're playing to people who, depending on the size of the theater, might be 40 meters away from you.

  

  George MacKay
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