Josh Hartnett Quotes

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

Josh Hartnett

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• Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Future
  • Science

• Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Potential

• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• I'm a fast writer.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Writer
  • Fast

• I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Work
  • Picture
  • Movies

• In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • She
  • America
  • Fun

• Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Deserve
  • Ways
  • Agree

• While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • See
  • Need

• I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Family
  • High
  • Dad

• I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Ridiculously

• I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • Right
  • Born

• Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Real
  • Night

• You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Job
  • Looking
  • Camera

• The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • Future
  • Christian
  • Mystic

• I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Life
  • Words
  • Feeling

• We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Smile
  • Jail
  • Criminals

• If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • You
  • Writer
  • Anything

• I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Respect
  • Regret
  • Censored

• You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

  

  Josh Hartnett
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Independent