Josh McDermitt Quotes

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

Josh McDermitt

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• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Right

• I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Band
  • Greatest
  • Planet

• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Me
  • Independent
  • Movies

• The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Progress
  • Personality
  • Sacrifice

• Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Crime
  • Obviously
  • Pays

• I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Love
  • Struggle

• I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Art
  • Beach
  • Walk

• Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Characters
  • Get
  • Noticed

• Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Done
  • Day
  • Amazing

• One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Power
  • Truth

• I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

  

  Karen O
  • Taken
  • Like
  • Kid

• Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • You
  • Feel
  • Unpredictable

• Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Sin

• Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Family
  • Listening

• Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Fall

• It shows you, Madame, the dangers of conversation. It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever, sooner or later they will give themselves away.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Long
  • Profound

• Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Earth
  • Dance
  • Silence

• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Listen
  • News

• The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

  

  Margot Fonteyn
  • Work
  • Important

• Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Fear
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

  

  Josh McDermitt
  • Music
  • Art
  • Inspiration