Ryan Potter Quotes

This isn't to play down people who pursue acting... For me, I do acting just as a fun job. It is a phenomenal job, and I have fun doing it, but I relate more to my martial arts, to my baseball, to my film study. There are more facets to my life that I relate to.

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• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Time
  • Democracy

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Job
  • Popular
  • Results

• I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Life
  • Think
  • Forever

• If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Easy
  • Transition

• I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Better

• An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Culture
  • Enemy
  • Army

• Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

  

  Gary Player
  • Game
  • Play
  • Golf

• I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Better
  • Right

• When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Man

• My mother is brilliant; she's the best person in the world and keeps me grounded.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • World
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Always

• I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

  

  Adam Faith
  • People
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
  • Want
  • Day
  • President

• In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

  

  Manuel Puig
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I would rather Google other people than Google myself.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Myself
  • Google

• I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Myself

• Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Heart
  • Weird
  • Sad

• If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to your best friend. You think, "Maybe she'll see through this or she'll see through that." That happened to me with my best friend back in Vancouver. I showed him "Just a Dream" and he took off the headphones halfway through and said, "Man, this is kind of garbage." He told me I needed to get singing lessons.

  

  Tobias Jesso Jr.
  • Men
  • Different
  • Thinking

• A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Play
  • Scene
  • Novel

• My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • People
  • Together
  • Support

• This ain't no garden party, brother, thisis wrestling, where only the strongest survive.

  

  Ric Flair
  • Brother
  • Wrestling
  • Strongest

• This isn't to play down people who pursue acting... For me, I do acting just as a fun job. It is a phenomenal job, and I have fun doing it, but I relate more to my martial arts, to my baseball, to my film study. There are more facets to my life that I relate to.

  

  Ryan Potter
  • Play
  • Study
  • Acting