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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• My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• 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

• It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Sick
  • Profound

• 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

• I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Want
  • Computers

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

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Culture
  • Enemy
  • Army

• Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Think
  • Garden
  • Modern

• 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

• I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Play
  • Easy
  • Smiling

• The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • People
  • Fun
  • Reason

• My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Romantic

• An actor gives voice to the many multitudes that we all contain. That's why we love the movies, why we love TV shows: we watch different people portray an aspect of ourselves, maybe even one we don't like.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• 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