Carice van Houten Quotes
When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
Quotes to Explore
-
I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.
-
I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
-
Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
-
I'm more interested in producing than acting.
-
I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
-
I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
-
I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
-
Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
-
I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
-
To me, country songs are simple.
-
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
-
I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
-
Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
-
In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
-
I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
-
Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
-
I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
-
I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
-
I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.
-
Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future?
-
You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend
-
We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.
-
When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
