Paul Sparks Quotes

As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

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• People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Party
  • Failure

• What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Great
  • Success
  • Perfect

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Free
  • Poverty
  • Capable

• As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Know
  • Proud
  • Band

• I can do a good John Wayne.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • I Can
  • John Wayne

• I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fun

• I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Alone
  • Film
  • Idea

• The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Friend
  • Proud
  • Spell

• When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

  

  Kanye West
  • Water
  • Products
  • Shirts

• 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.

  

  J. Allen Boone
  • Dog

• However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • World
  • Long
  • Home

• Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Ideas
  • Wealth
  • Source

• Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Persistence

• If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

  

  William Mapother
  • Thinking
  • Band
  • Actors

• More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Risk
  • Stupid

• I'm really inspired right now by a lot of the actors and actresses who are pursuing storytelling outside of just acting. They're writing, producing, they are creating their own material. That's really exciting to me. It feels like the possibilities are endless as far the things that you can make and even where they can be shown.

  

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson
  • Inspired
  • Actors
  • Creating

• When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Ability

• You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • You
  • Looking
  • Used

• As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

  

  Paul Sparks
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