Nick Cassavetes (Nicholas David Rowland Cassavetes) Quotes

I like to give my actors a lot of room.

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• My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Woman

• I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Influence

• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • World
  • Mind
  • Brain

• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Human
  • Start
  • Danger

• As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Long
  • You
  • Education

• The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Days
  • Holocaust

• I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Determination

• Background updating is absolutely the future.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Future
  • Background
  • Updating

• If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Home
  • California
  • Rain

• I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Country
  • Want
  • You

• A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Human
  • Creativity
  • Heritage

• The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Friend
  • Temptation
  • Meeting

• I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Book

• When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Success
  • Sweet
  • Atomic Bomb

• The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Time
  • Anonymous
  • L.A.

• I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Wonder
  • Choices
  • Recognize

• There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Giving
  • Study
  • Persons

• When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Play
  • Actors
  • Levels

• I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Prepared

• I like to give my actors a lot of room.

  

  Nick Cassavetes
  • Actors
  • Give
  • Room