Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

Harry Connick, Jr.

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• A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Stage
  • Ready
  • Stage Fright

• Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Mind
  • Religion
  • Understand

• I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Different
  • Want
  • Better

• When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Great
  • Different
  • Women

• Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Picture
  • Acting
  • Talent

• Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Successful

• When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Truth
  • Acting
  • Story

• I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Acting
  • Mercy

• When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Movie
  • Goal
  • Acting

• To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Success
  • Measure

• If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Different
  • Children
  • Experience

• I constantly compare myself to artists who have, like, 10 times the budget I do. My mind is the biggest challenge, honestly.

  

  Verite
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• It often happens that reforms merely have the effect of transferring the undesirable tendencies of individuals from one channel to another channel. An old outlet for some particular wickedness is closed; but a new outlet is opened. The wickedness is not abolished; it is merely provided with a different set of opportunities for self-expression.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Different

• I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.

  

  Jason Mitchell
  • Different

• No one is different from the other. I'm very grateful that I have a diverse group of fans as well. We welcome individuality over here in my world, and I think that my fans can see and feel that.

  

  Ciara
  • World
  • Different

• With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Reason

• Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his confidence. He was the one who incontestably changed my life, because without his help, I do not know what I will have become.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Life
  • Help
  • Confidence

• I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Husband
  • Magic

• When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Singing